A5 crash in Westminster on 23 June 1995 at 13:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Volvo 940 were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 13:30 on Friday 23 June 1995. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 1995
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Volvo 940
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51414, longitude -0.16166, in the W2 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
- 199501DM00348
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5204
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 27 September 2011.
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 27 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW12380
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 17 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DP00146
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 6 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DP00435
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00561
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 16 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01452
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A5 in Westminster, 7 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DP00094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 940
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199501DM00348 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.