A302 crash in Westminster on 2 April 2004 at 09:44 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A302 in Westminster at 09:44 on Friday 2 April 2004. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 2004
- Friday, 09:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49937, longitude -0.12953, in the SW1P 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, SW1Y 5HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401DM00410
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 302
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A302 in Westminster, 14 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199201AB00166
Slight
Bus crash on the A302 in Westminster, 16 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010AR0298
Serious
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A302 in Westminster, 1 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199501AB00126
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A302 in Westminster, 18 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00735
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 24 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701AR00243
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A302 in Westminster, 9 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199401AB00211
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200401DM00410 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.