A40 crash in Westminster on 2 March 1983 at 12:48 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 12:48 on Wednesday 2 March 1983. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 1983
- Wednesday, 12:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51393, longitude -0.15375, in the W1C 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
- 1983010DM0072
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 41
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 5 May 1983.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 5 May 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010CD0098
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Westminster, 2 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101DM00488
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 12 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CD00037
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Westminster, 3 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DM00007
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198601DM00062
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DM00137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 1983010DM0072 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 1983.