B326 crash in Westminster on 14 November 2018 at 14:40 involving a Wrightbus NB4L
A Wrightbus NB4L crashed on the B326 in Westminster at 14:40 on Wednesday 14 November 2018. An 87-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus NB4L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49862, longitude -0.12999, in the SW1P postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, SW1Y 5HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010145625
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 326
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 10 May 1995.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B326 in Westminster, 10 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501AB00176
Slight
Honda CG125 crash on the B326 in Westminster, 1 October 2004
14 m awayRef 200401DM01425
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the B326 in Westminster, 25 October 2004
14 m awayRef 200401DM01448
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B326 in Westminster, 24 April 1989
20 m awayRef 198901AR00084
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the B326 in Westminster, 14 March 2016
20 m awayRef 201601CW10272
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the B326 in Westminster, 23 March 2023
24 m awayRef 2023010434138
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus NB4L
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
- 32 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 87, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus NB4L)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018010145625 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.