Serious A4205 crash in Westminster on 27 January 2004 at 13:30 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus and a Toyota Carina were involved in a crash on the A4205 in Westminster at 13:30 on Tuesday 27 January 2004. A 30-year-old male passenger in the Dennis bus was seriously injured and a 50-year-old female passenger in the Dennis bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jan 2004
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51758, longitude -0.17203, in the W2 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Venice, Westminster, W2 1LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401DM00191
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 2015.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 23 July 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW11094
Slight
Car crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 2 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DD00339
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 6 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01340
Slight
Bus crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 24 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DD00127
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 28 September 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010468826
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A4205 in Westminster, 3 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200301DM01109
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 30, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 200401DM00191 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 2004.