A401 crash in Westminster on 29 November 1996 at 20:36 involving a Metrocab Metrocab taxi
A Metrocab Metrocab taxi hit a pedestrian on the A401 in Westminster at 20:36 on Friday 29 November 1996. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 1996
- Friday, 20:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Metrocab Metrocab
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51318, longitude -0.12927, in the W1D postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601CD00458
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 401
- 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
- 400
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 25 February 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A400 in Westminster, 25 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CB00042
Slight
Car crash on the A400 in Westminster, 27 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CX00224
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A400 in Westminster, 26 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW10302
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A401 in Westminster, 19 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198701EO00390
Slight
Lambretta crash on the A401 in Westminster, 10 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200301EO00449
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A401 in Westminster, 16 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901CD00096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Metrocab Metrocab
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Metrocab Metrocab)
- 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 199601CD00458 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 1996.