A5 crash in Westminster on 15 February 2014 at 17:38 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A5 in Westminster at 17:38 on Saturday 15 February 2014. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2014
- Saturday, 17:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51501, longitude -0.16305, in the W2 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
- 201401CW10159
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1985.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 13 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198501DD00414
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 19 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198501DD00602
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5 in Westminster, 28 February 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DD00073
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Westminster, 9 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DD00411
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A5 in Westminster, 20 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01855
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the A5 in Westminster, 26 April 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010104225
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201401CW10159 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 2014.