A41 crash in Westminster on 23 December 2001 at 20:03 involving a Mazda 323
Four vehicles, including a Mazda 323 and a Volkswagen Golf, were involved in a crash on the A41 in Westminster at 20:03 on Sunday 23 December 2001. A 6-year-old male passenger in the Mazda 323 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2001
- Sunday, 20:03
- Vehicles
- 4
- Mazda 323 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51632, longitude -0.15492, in the W1H 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
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101DM02632
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 41
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 10 June 1990.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A41 in Westminster, 10 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199001DM00232
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A41 in Westminster, 14 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199301DM00288
Slight
Taxi crash on the A41 in Westminster, 12 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DM00013
Slight
Bus crash on the A41 in Westminster, 29 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DM00249
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Westminster, 12 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601DM00195
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A41 in Westminster, 21 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199001DM00425
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Daihatsu Sirion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 4: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,602 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200101DM02632 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.