A40 crash in Westminster on 14 February 2006 at 08:40 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 08:40 on Tuesday 14 February 2006. A 21-year-old female pedestrian 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
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2006
- Tuesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51538, longitude -0.14098, in the W1D postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601CW10080
- 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
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4201
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2011.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11936
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 30 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW11302
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 August 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11557
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 30 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198501DM00529
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301DM00396
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 February 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010CD0048
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- On refuge, central island or central reservation
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 200601CW10080 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 2006.