Serious A4 crash in Westminster on 22 March 2003 at 01:14 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 01:14 on Saturday 22 March 2003. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Mar 2003
- Saturday, 01:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50812, longitude -0.13148, in the SW1Y postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301DM00440
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 July 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4 in Westminster, 10 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01166
Serious
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 2 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CW10173
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 9 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00382
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A4 in Westminster, 30 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01321
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 4 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00652
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4 in Westminster, 24 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01142
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200301DM00440 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 2003.