A41 crash in Westminster on 27 November 2003 at 15:00 involving a Carbodies Taxi
A Carbodies Taxi and a Dennis bus were involved in a crash on the A41 in Westminster at 15:00 on Thursday 27 November 2003. The 56-year-old male driver of the Carbodies Taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2003
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Carbodies Taxi and Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5223, longitude -0.15771, in the NW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301DM01829
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 501
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 July 2016.
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Westminster, 11 July 2016
At the same spotRef 201601CW11489
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A501 in Westminster, 7 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00733
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A41 in Westminster, 15 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11600
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A41 in Westminster, 28 June 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010190157
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the A41 in Westminster, 12 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010603221
Serious
Bus crash on the A41 in Westminster, 27 February 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010165889
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Carbodies Taxi)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200301DM01829 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 2003.