A5204 crash in Westminster on 7 September 1984 at 16:40 involving a car
A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A5204 in Westminster at 16:40 on Friday 7 September 1984. A 25-year-old female passenger in the taxi 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
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 1984
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51612, longitude -0.15049, in the W1U 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
- 198401DM00367
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5204
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2014.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 13 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10299
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 7 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198701DM00144
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 27 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198701DM00356
Serious
BMW 7 Series crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 19 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201001CW12359
Slight
Car crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 8 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198401DM00369
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 8 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010614245
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198401DM00367 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 1984.