C road crash in Westminster W1F on 17 July 1997 at 17:00 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 17:00 on Thursday 17 July 1997. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1997
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xantia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51183, longitude -0.13509, in the W1F 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
- 199701CD00261
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
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 8 November 1995.
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 19 January 1984
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 20 May 1983
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
- 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 199701CD00261 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 1997.