A40 crash in Westminster on 6 July 1995 at 12:50 involving a Saab 900
A Saab 900 hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 12:50 on Thursday 6 July 1995. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 1995
- Thursday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51535, longitude -0.14144, in the W1D 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501DM00337
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 1994.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 900
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Saab 900)
- 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 199501DM00337 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.