Serious A302 crash in Westminster on 4 June 1985 at 12:40
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the A302 in Westminster at 12:40 on Tuesday 4 June 1985. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- 4 Jun 1985
- Tuesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49926, longitude -0.13056, in the SW1H 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
- 198501AR00118
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 302
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 1990.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A302 in Westminster, 23 November 1990
10 m awayRef 199001AB00507
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the A302 in Westminster, 6 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199401AB00151
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A302 in Westminster, 28 March 2001
14 m awayRef 200101DM00612
Serious
Car crash on the A302 in Westminster, 29 December 1987
14 m awayRef 198701AR00305
Slight
Bus crash on the A302 in Westminster, 3 October 1987
14 m awayRef 198701AR00227
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A302 in Westminster, 6 April 2022
15 m awayRef 2022010369476
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- 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 198501AR00118 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 1985.