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Serious A40 crash in the City of London on 4 December 1992 at 17:00 involving a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry

A Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry hit a pedestrian on the A40 in the City of London at 17:00 on Friday 4 December 1992. A 62-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Dec 1992
Friday, 17:00
Vehicles
1
Leyland DAF FA 45
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5151, longitude -0.09763, in the EC4M postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199201CP00231
Council area
City of London
Police force
City of London

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
40
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
A
Second road number
40

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
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 9 May 2016.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 45

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Leyland DAF FA 45)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199201CP00231 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 1992.