Serious A4207 crash in Westminster on 16 March 1983 at 14:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4207 in Westminster at 14:45 on Wednesday 16 March 1983. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 1983
- Wednesday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52113, longitude -0.20073, in the W11 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010DR0067
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4207
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 9 July 1983.
Slight
Bus crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 9 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010DR0163
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 25 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200301DM01975
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 29 April 1996
10 m awayRef 199601BH00089
Slight
Bus crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 23 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200101DM00617
Slight
Bus crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 5 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198501DR00208
Serious
Taxi crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 21 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198801DR00066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 1983010DR0067 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.