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Serious B402 crash in Westminster on 10 May 1989 at 20:30 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the B402 in Westminster at 20:30 on Wednesday 10 May 1989. A 37-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 May 1989
Wednesday, 20:30
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51154, longitude -0.1279, in the WC2H 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
198901CB00075
Council area
Westminster
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
402
Road type
One way street or slip road
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 26 May 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198901CB00075 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 1989.