A40 crash in Westminster on 24 March 2002 at 02:50 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Mercedes 200 were involved in a crash on the A40 in Westminster at 02:50 on Sunday 24 March 2002. The 31-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2002
- Sunday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Mercedes 200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51522, longitude -0.14228, in the W1B postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201DM00565
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4201
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 22 July 2012.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW10985
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00074
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00004
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02197
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 14 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DM00014
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00634
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
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 200201DM00565 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 2002.