C road crash in Westminster W1S on 20 December 1997 at 00:05 involving a Toyota Camry
A Toyota Camry hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 00:05 on Saturday 20 December 1997. A 32-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1997
- Saturday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Camry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51234, longitude -0.14459, in the W1S 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
- 199701CD00482
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 406
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 8 April 1984.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B406 in Westminster, 8 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CD00073
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Car crash on the B406 in Westminster, 27 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CD00274
Slight
Taxi crash on the B406 in Westminster, 9 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CD0116
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Taxi crash on the B406 in Westminster, 13 October 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CD0268
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Bicycle crash on the B406 in Westminster, 22 December 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Camry
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Camry)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 199701CD00482 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.