A400 crash in Camden on 27 December 2015 at 16:42 involving a Wrightbus NB4L
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2015
- Sunday, 16:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus NB4L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51683, longitude -0.12696, in the WC1A postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501EK41164
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 400
- 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
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1996.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B522 in Camden, 14 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199601EO00022
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A40 in Camden, 16 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12699
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A400 in Camden, 19 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701EO00553
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Camden, 18 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001EK00462
Slight
Volvo crash on the A40 in Camden, 3 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701EO00533
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A40 in Camden, 1 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701EO00484
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus NB4L
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Wrightbus NB4L)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201501EK41164 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Camden road accident statistics for 2015.