Serious A40 crash in Westminster on 3 September 1992 at 19:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 19:50 on Thursday 3 September 1992. A 22-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Sep 1992
- Thursday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51463, longitude -0.1468, in the W1C 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
- 199201DM00319
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 406
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 serious injury crash on 24 July 1986.
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CD00166
Serious
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CD00133
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 5 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11781
Slight
Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 21 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TA00348
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11673
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A40 in Westminster, 25 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CW10719
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 199201DM00319 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 1992.