Serious A501 crash in Westminster on 18 December 2022 at 11:30 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A501 in Westminster at 11:30 on Sunday 18 December 2022. A 59-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 2022
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52202, longitude -0.15869, in the NW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010417076
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 501
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2019.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A501 in Westminster, 8 May 2019
2 m awayRef 2019010179546
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A501 in Westminster, 15 November 2020
3 m awayRef 2020010279529
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A501 in Westminster, 18 March 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010242757
Slight
Honda SH125 crash on the A501 in Westminster, 14 August 2017
4 m awayRef 2017010053758
Slight
Aprilia crash on the A501 in Westminster, 30 January 2004
4 m awayRef 200401DM00098
Slight
Honda CBF 125 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 7 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010590794
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 59, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- 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 2022010417076 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 2022.