C road crash in Westminster W9 on 18 September 2012 at 13:47 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus crashed on a C road in Westminster at 13:47 on Tuesday 18 September 2012. A 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
- 18 Sep 2012
- Tuesday, 13:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52868, longitude -0.18081, in the W9 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maida Vale, Westminster, W9 1HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201CW11322
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2010.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 23 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201001CW12832
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Westminster, 30 March 1992
14 m awayRef 199201DD00141
Serious
Taxi crash on a C road in Westminster, 14 December 1991
14 m awayRef 199101DD00559
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Westminster, 28 April 2003
20 m awayRef 200301DM00641
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 5 June 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010DD0242
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Westminster, 12 September 1995
22 m awayRef 199501DM00493
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- 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 201201CW11322 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 2012.