C road crash in Westminster W1K on 27 August 1985 at 16:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 16:20 on Tuesday 27 August 1985. A 73-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 1985
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5132, longitude -0.15349, in the W1K postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501CD00255
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 198501CD00255 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.