A40 crash in Westminster on 16 April 2004 at 19:40 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 19:40 on Friday 16 April 2004. A 35-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2004
- Friday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51379, longitude -0.15416, in the W1C 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
- 200401DM00481
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 41
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2004.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00054
Slight
Scania crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 August 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW11060
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11771
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 November 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12495
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM02001
Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW12569
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200401DM00481 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.