A40 crash in Westminster on 16 May 2001 at 19:05 involving a Carbodies Taxi
A Carbodies Taxi hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 19:05 on Wednesday 16 May 2001. A 44-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2001
- Wednesday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Carbodies Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51363, longitude -0.15575, in the W1C postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101DM00946
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single 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 phase at traffic signal
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 18 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DM00113
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 4 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11355
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A40 in Westminster, 17 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW11248
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 January 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CW10084
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A40 in Westminster, 19 April 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW10611
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 14 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00769
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Carbodies Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200101DM00946 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 2001.