A40 crash in Westminster on 16 August 1997 at 15:54 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 15:54 on Saturday 16 August 1997. A 16-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 16 Aug 1997
- Saturday, 15:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51182, longitude -0.17401, in the W2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701DP00345
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4209
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 20 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DD00202
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A402 in Westminster, 9 January 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010010607
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DP00480
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DD00068
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198501DD00551
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199001DD00360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 199701DP00345 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.