A404 crash in Westminster on 18 June 1997 at 20:31 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series crashed on the A404 in Westminster at 20:31 on Wednesday 18 June 1997. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 20:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 800 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51996, longitude -0.17714, in the W2 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
- 199701DP00247
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Dual 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4206
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 10 July 1996.
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Peugeot 205 crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 10 July 1996
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 27 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601DP00294
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Rover 600 Series crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 11 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601DP00267
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Nissan Bluebird crash on the A404 in Westminster, 20 June 2001
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)
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 199701DP00247 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.