Serious A302 crash in Westminster on 29 December 1981 at 20:10 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A302 in Westminster at 20:10 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. A 35-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1981
- Tuesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LTUCC14
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 302
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 198101LTUCC14 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 1981.