B401 crash in Westminster on 19 August 1982 at 17:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B401 in Westminster at 17:35 on Thursday 19 August 1982. A female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 1982
- Thursday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51389, longitude -0.12319, in the WC2E 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
- 1982010CB0197
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 401
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 402
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 10 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B401 in Westminster, 10 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CB00255
Slight
Car crash on the B401 in Westminster, 17 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CB00210
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B402 in Westminster, 14 August 2024
8 m awayRef 2024010527061
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the B402 in Westminster, 14 September 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010466108
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B402 in Westminster, 22 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010605074
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B402 in Westminster, 3 June 1993
10 m awayRef 199301CX00162
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
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, 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 1982010CB0197 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.