A401 crash in Westminster on 24 December 2004 at 21:05 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series hit a pedestrian on the A401 in Westminster at 21:05 on Friday 24 December 2004. A 28-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2004
- Friday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 600 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51208, longitude -0.13146, in the W1D 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401CW10325
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 401
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 401
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 February 2016.
Serious
Mercedes Vito crash on the A401 in Westminster, 9 February 2016
At the same spotRef 201601CW10093
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A401 in Westminster, 24 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11062
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A401 in Westminster, 10 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11801
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A401 in Westminster, 5 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CD00223
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A401 in Westminster, 2 May 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW10733
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A401 in Westminster, 8 March 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW10246
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 200401CW10325 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 2004.