C road crash in Westminster W1F on 25 December 2003 at 02:40 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 02:40 on Thursday 25 December 2003. A 26-year-old male pedestrian 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2003
- Thursday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51034, longitude -0.13542, in the W1F 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301DM02000
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2001.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on a C road in Westminster, 12 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200101DM00761
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Westminster, 11 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198601CV00141
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 7 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198701CV00149
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 17 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501CV00120
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 8 July 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010CV0139
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 22 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010CV0012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200301DM02000 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.