B408 crash in Hammersmith and Fulham on 20 July 2023 at 12:40 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B408 in Hammersmith and Fulham at 12:40 on Thursday 20 July 2023. An 86-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2023
- Thursday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50089, longitude -0.23984, in the W12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ravenscourt, Hammersmith and Fulham, W6 0TY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010456378
- Council area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 408
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 September 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the B408 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 13 September 1986
3 m awayRef 198601FS00268
Slight
Car crash on the B408 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 1 July 1991
11 m awayRef 199101FD00369
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B408 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 15 July 2010
13 m awayRef 201001FH10370
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B408 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 22 June 1998
16 m awayRef 199801FH00277
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B408 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 27 April 2002
16 m awayRef 200201FH00251
Slight
Car crash on the B408 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 20 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010620172
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 86, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 2023010456378 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hammersmith and Fulham road accident statistics for 2023.