A40 crash in Westminster on 27 April 1998 at 15:02 involving a Carbodies Taxi
A Carbodies Taxi hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 15:02 on Monday 27 April 1998. A 28-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
- 27 Apr 1998
- Monday, 15:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Carbodies Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51565, longitude -0.13797, in the W1D postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801DM00208
- 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
- C
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 24 June 2005.
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW10911
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 11 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM00917
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 6 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM01328
Slight
Honda SCV100 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 March 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW10564
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 10 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010614804
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 April 2002
10 m awayRef 200201DM00555
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Carbodies Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 199801DM00208 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.