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Unclassified road crash in Kensington and Chelsea SW1X on 2 December 1984 at 14:30 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea at 14:30 on Sunday 2 December 1984. A 60-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
2 Dec 1984
Sunday, 14:30
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4991, longitude -0.1604, in the SW1X postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198401BC00519
Council area
Kensington and Chelsea
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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 serious injury crash on 27 April 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    35 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

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 198401BC00519 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 1984.