Serious A404 crash in Westminster on 22 February 1999 at 23:54 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on the A404 in Westminster at 23:54 on Monday 22 February 1999. The 50-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Feb 1999
- Monday, 23:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51968, longitude -0.18607, in the W2 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901DP00063
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 May 1998.
Serious
Scooter crash on the A404 in Westminster, 12 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199801DP00199
Serious
Car crash on the A501 in Westminster, 2 August 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010DD0362
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A404 in Westminster, 20 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199901DP00150
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 14 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801DP00496
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A40 in Westminster, 15 January 2003
14 m awayRef 200301DM00079
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 December 2001
20 m awayRef 200101DM02577
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
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 199901DP00063 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.