A4 crash in Westminster on 23 May 1997 at 15:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 15:05 on Friday 23 May 1997. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 1997
- Friday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50583, longitude -0.13635, in the SW1Y 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
- 199701CX00170
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2007.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 3 July 2007
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Slight
Mercedes 400 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 15 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199701CX00015
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B309 in Westminster, 9 April 1990
20 m awayRef 199001CV00080
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 14 December 1994
22 m awayRef 199401CX00449
Slight
Mazda MX-3 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 7 October 1997
22 m awayRef 199701CD00389
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 11 June 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010CV0111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 199701CX00170 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.