A3214 crash in Westminster on 24 December 1999 at 20:39 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo and a car were involved in a crash on the A3214 in Westminster at 20:39 on Friday 24 December 1999. The 37-year-old male driver of the car and a 35-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1999
- Friday, 20:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49798, longitude -0.14399, in the SW1W 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
- 199901DM01196
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3214
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3217
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3217 in Westminster, 13 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199901AB00056
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A3214 in Westminster, 4 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199201CX00265
Slight
MCW crash on the A3214 in Westminster, 21 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601AB00457
Slight
Fiat Regata crash on the A3214 in Westminster, 7 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199701AB00235
Serious
Mercedes 500 crash on the A3217 in Westminster, 7 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00685
Serious
Volvo crash on the A3214 in Westminster, 16 June 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010114778
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199901DM01196 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 1999.