A315 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 11 August 2018 at 14:20 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea at 14:20 on Saturday 11 August 2018. A 71-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 2018
- Saturday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49984, longitude -0.19622, in the W8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Campden, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 7NU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010126457
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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 1 March 2017.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 March 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010023853
Slight
Honda crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 18 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199001BD00223
Serious
Car crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 14 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198601BD00324
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 15 December 2013
At the same spotRef 201301BS70761
Slight
Honda CMX 500 crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 15 July 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010586879
Serious
Mini Countryman crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 4 March 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010166930
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, 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 2018010126457 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2018.