A40 crash in Westminster on 21 April 2007 at 08:15 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 08:15 on Saturday 21 April 2007. A 25-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2007
- Saturday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51394, longitude -0.15257, in the W1K 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
- 200701CW10476
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 1994.
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 31 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DM00033
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A40 in Westminster, 12 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW11228
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 27 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198501CD00086
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010CD0126
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501CD00116
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A40 in Westminster, 15 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TA00408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 200701CW10476 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 2007.