A5 crash in Westminster on 16 October 2015 at 17:52 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A5 in Westminster at 17:52 on Friday 16 October 2015. A 73-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
- 16 Oct 2015
- Friday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51359, longitude -0.16082, 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
- 201501CW11559
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1995.
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A5 in Westminster, 18 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501DP00451
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DP00132
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DM00145
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A5 in Westminster, 12 August 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW11201
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A5 in Westminster, 31 May 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010379631
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 3 July 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010191331
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, 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 201501CW11559 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 2015.