A4 crash in Westminster on 22 May 2013 at 15:35 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A4 in Westminster at 15:35 on Wednesday 22 May 2013. A 91-year-old male passenger 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
- 22 May 2013
- Wednesday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50755, longitude -0.14058, in the SW1A 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, W1J 6EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301CW10586
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2011.
Slight
Suzuki GSF 650 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 27 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11402
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A4 in Westminster, 23 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00997
Slight
Piaggio Fly crash on the A4 in Westminster, 13 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW10932
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW10027
Slight
Bus crash on the B309 in Westminster, 12 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10464
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4 in Westminster, 13 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200901TA00063
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 91, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 201301CW10586 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 2013.