B414 crash in Westminster on 24 April 1998 at 19:25 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on the B414 in Westminster at 19:25 on Friday 24 April 1998. A 4-year-old male 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
- 24 Apr 1998
- Friday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52553, longitude -0.20013, in the W9 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
- 199801DP00178
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 414
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2020.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B414 in Westminster, 4 June 2020
12 m awayRef 2020010250425
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B414 in Westminster, 29 November 2024
12 m awayRef 2024010546441
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the B414 in Westminster, 21 July 2025
13 m awayRef 2025010588041
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B414 in Westminster, 18 August 2003
50 m awayRef 200301DM01246
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the B414 in Westminster, 24 July 1995
54 m awayRef 199501DP00270
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B414 in Westminster, 2 October 2015
57 m awayRef 201501CW11488
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 199801DP00178 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.