C road crash in Westminster W1S on 27 November 1997 at 13:35 involving a Mercedes S Class
A car and a Mercedes S Class were involved in a crash on a C road in Westminster at 13:35 on Thursday 27 November 1997. A 27-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 1997
- Thursday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes S Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51157, longitude -0.14116, in the W1S postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701CD00455
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2013.
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Westminster, 24 June 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW10780
Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on a C road in Westminster, 13 January 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TA00034
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Westminster, 20 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM02441
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on a C road in Westminster, 24 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CW12030
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 24 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CD0241
Serious
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on a C road in Westminster, 24 January 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW10194
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes S Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199701CD00455 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.