A40 crash in Westminster on 18 March 2018 at 02:13 involving a Wrightbus NB4L
A Wrightbus NB4L crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 02:13 on Sunday 18 March 2018. A 42-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2018
- Sunday, 02:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus NB4L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51487, longitude -0.14518, 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
- 2018010096819
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 31 March 2003.
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 31 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00494
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 19 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010079173
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 7 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00395
Slight
Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00442
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW10599
Slight
Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 21 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00094
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus NB4L
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus NB4L)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018010096819 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 2018.