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A40 crash in Westminster on 29 August 1998 at 12:30 involving a taxi

A taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A40 in Westminster at 12:30 on Saturday 29 August 1998. The male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Aug 1998
Saturday, 12:30
Vehicles
2
Taxi and bicycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51068, longitude -0.18198, 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
199801DP00389
Council area
Westminster
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
40
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

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 26 September 2004.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)

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 199801DP00389 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.