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Serious A4 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 4 June 1984 at 09:45 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea at 09:45 on Monday 4 June 1984. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Jun 1984
Monday, 09:45
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49532, longitude -0.18288, in the SW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198401BD00223
Council area
Kensington and Chelsea
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
B
Second road number
325

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 2024.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    51 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    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 198401BD00223 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.