Serious A4 crash in Westminster on 11 April 1995 at 01:05 involving a Carbodies Taxi
A Carbodies Taxi hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 01:05 on Tuesday 11 April 1995. A 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
- 11 Apr 1995
- Tuesday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Carbodies Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50845, longitude -0.13192, in the SW1Y 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
- 199501CD00119
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2327
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 24 April 2003.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 24 April 2003
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Slight
Van crash on the A4 in Westminster, 28 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501CD00090
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 March 2018
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Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 13 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CD00298
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A4 in Westminster, 29 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501CD00092
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4 in Westminster, 5 September 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010130814
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Carbodies Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 199501CD00119 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 1995.