A4 crash in Westminster on 19 August 1982 at 20:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 20:35 on Thursday 19 August 1982. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 1982
- Thursday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51238, longitude -0.11879, in the WC2B 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
- 1982010CB0192
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2017.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A4 in Westminster, 27 April 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010034312
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 30 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CB00159
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A4 in Westminster, 13 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201601CW10506
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CB00265
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4 in Westminster, 29 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501TA00305
Slight
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A4 in Westminster, 22 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TA00354
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1982010CB0192 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.