A401 crash in Westminster on 6 November 1998 at 22:20 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza hit a pedestrian on the A401 in Westminster at 22:20 on Friday 6 November 1998. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 1998
- Friday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Impreza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51153, longitude -0.13295, in the W1D 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
- 199801CD00447
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 401
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- C
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 2 October 2004.
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Westminster, 2 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM01311
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Westminster, 14 June 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CV00092
Slight
Honda crash on the A401 in Westminster, 10 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901CD00087
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Westminster, 27 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199201CV00035
Fatal
Mercedes E Class crash on the A401 in Westminster, 25 December 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010566856
Serious
Kia Niro crash on the A401 in Westminster, 3 August 2023
10 m awayRef 2023010458788
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Subaru Impreza)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 199801CD00447 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 1998.