A401 crash in Camden on 14 September 2018 at 18:49 involving a bus or coach
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2018
- Friday, 18:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51855, longitude -0.12211, in the WC1A postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bloomsbury, Camden, WC1B 5DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Camden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010132622
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 401
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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 26 October 2014.
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A40 in Camden, 26 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401EK40884
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Camden, 23 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501EK40519
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Camden, 22 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201EO00353
Serious
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A40 in Camden, 21 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201601EK40009
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Camden, 19 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199401EO00270
Slight
Suzuki DL 650 crash on the A40 in Camden, 27 August 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010594107
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 31, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2018010132622 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Camden road accident statistics for 2018.