A40 crash in Westminster on 3 October 2017 at 08:15 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 08:15 on Tuesday 3 October 2017. A 12-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2017
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5134, longitude -0.16037, in the W1H 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
- 2017010062259
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 22 April 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DM00204
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 30 December 2019
6 m awayRef 2019010227769
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 6 June 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010380615
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A5 in Westminster, 6 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200301DM00534
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A5 in Westminster, 23 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199101DM00104
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 10 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199701DP00562
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2017010062259 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.