Serious A4201 crash in Westminster on 13 December 1986 at 03:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4201 in Westminster at 03:50 on Saturday 13 December 1986. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 1986
- Saturday, 03:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51545, longitude -0.14201, in the W1B 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
- 198601DM00520
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DM00187
Slight
Kawasaki Z550 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 6 June 1991
At the same spotRef 199101DM00199
Serious
Car crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 4 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198501DM00032
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CD0234
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 10 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010DM0192
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CD0160
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 198601DM00520 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 1986.