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B400 crash in Westminster on 7 December 1987 at 17:05 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the B400 in Westminster at 17:05 on Monday 7 December 1987. A 76-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
7 Dec 1987
Monday, 17:05
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51605, longitude -0.11186, in the WC2A postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden.

Map of where the crash happened in Westminster

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198701CB00252
Council area
Westminster
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
400
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
400

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    32 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 76, 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 198701CB00252 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 1987.