Unclassified road crash in Westminster WC2H on 21 August 1997 at 14:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Westminster at 14:00 on Thursday 21 August 1997. A 25-year-old 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 1997
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50943, longitude -0.13087, in the WC2H 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
- 199701CD00298
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199701CD00298 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.