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A4 crash in Westminster on 27 July 1982 at 14:58 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 14:58 on Tuesday 27 July 1982. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Jul 1982
Tuesday, 14:58
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50862, longitude -0.12543, in the WC2R postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.

Map of where the crash happened in Westminster

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982010AD0168
Council area
Westminster
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Authorised person
Second road class
A
Second road number
4

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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 2003.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1982010AD0168 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 1982.