Serious A401 crash in Camden on 3 December 2025 at 13:20 involving a Volvo bus
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51708, longitude -0.12586, in the WC1A postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010613190
- 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
- 20 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2019.
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A40 in Camden, 7 August 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010198220
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Camden, 27 September 1984
4 m awayRef 198401EO00497
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Camden, 26 December 1985
4 m awayRef 198501EO00613
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Camden, 13 June 1989
4 m awayRef 198901EO00261
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Camden, 14 December 1986
4 m awayRef 198601EO00569
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Camden, 8 October 1986
4 m awayRef 198601EO00451
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010613190 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 2025.