A4 crash in Westminster on 27 March 2008 at 09:35 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A4 in Westminster at 09:35 on Thursday 27 March 2008. A 45-year-old male 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
- 27 Mar 2008
- Thursday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51251, longitude -0.11876, in the WC2B postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801CW10332
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 28 December 2001.
Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 28 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02633
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010CB0236
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02348
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A4 in Westminster, 14 November 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010145705
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 1 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CX00003
Serious
Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 18 June 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CB00130
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 200801CW10332 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 2008.