A40 crash in Westminster on 4 April 2017 at 12:40 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 12:40 on Tuesday 4 April 2017. A 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
- 4 Apr 2017
- Tuesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51503, longitude -0.14359, in the W1C 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, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010050104
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2004.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00456
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 13 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00132
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11883
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 3 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00533
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW10023
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 12 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01964
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
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 2017010050104 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.