Unclassified road crash in Westminster NW8 on 7 December 1998 at 09:40 involving a Volvo V40
A car and a Volvo V40 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Westminster at 09:40 on Monday 7 December 1998. The 35-year-old female driver of the Volvo V40 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1998
- Monday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo V40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52616, longitude -0.17733, in the NW8 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
- 199801DM00706
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 5205
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2007.
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 15 January 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW10051
Serious
Car crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 23 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12760
Slight
Honda crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 3 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00368
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 7 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00387
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 13 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW10966
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 16 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo V40)
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 199801DM00706 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.