A315 crash in Westminster on 10 March 2017 at 18:15 involving a Wrightbus NB4L
A Wrightbus NB4L crashed on the A315 in Westminster at 18:15 on Friday 10 March 2017. An 83-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2017
- Friday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus NB4L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50156, longitude -0.17915, in the SW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brompton & Hans Town, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7 2PA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010024291
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 1998.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A315 in Westminster, 17 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801AB00466
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the A315 in Westminster, 21 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM01437
Slight
Car crash on the A315 in Westminster, 10 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601AL00158
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the A315 in Westminster, 22 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199001AB00114
Serious
Car crash on the A315 in Westminster, 26 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010AL0125
Slight
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A315 in Westminster, 11 October 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010336871
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus NB4L
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 83, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus NB4L)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2017010024291 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 2017.