Unclassified road crash in Westminster W1U on 25 October 2003 at 20:39 involving a Mercedes
A Mercedes crashed on an unclassified road in Westminster at 20:39 on Saturday 25 October 2003. The 34-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2003
- Saturday, 20:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51866, longitude -0.15483, in the W1U 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
- 200301TA00486
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2003.
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 21 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200301DM01655
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24 m awayRef 2025010565287
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 27 September 1985
32 m awayRef 198501DM00370
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Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 13 July 2010
41 m awayRef 201001CW11483
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 16 March 2019
42 m awayRef 2019010169541
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 7 September 1983
51 m awayRef 1983010DM0342
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 200301TA00486 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.