Unclassified road crash in Kensington and Chelsea W10 on 22 May 2019 at 10:55 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea at 10:55 on Wednesday 22 May 2019. The 36-year-old male driver, a female passenger aged under 1 and a 49-year-old female passenger were 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
- 22 May 2019
- Wednesday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52552, longitude -0.21586, in the W10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalgarno, Kensington and Chelsea, W10 5YW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010182439
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 1998.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 19 April 1998
14 m awayRef 199801BH00131
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 29 September 2019
16 m awayRef 2019010208413
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 24 July 2003
18 m awayRef 200301BS00430
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 7 July 2003
18 m awayRef 200301BS00384
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 March 2002
18 m awayRef 200201BS00131
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 4 September 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010595759
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged under 1, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2019010182439 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 2019.