A501 crash in Westminster on 7 June 2004 at 13:47 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Carbodies Taxi were involved in a crash on the A501 in Westminster at 13:47 on Monday 7 June 2004. The 43-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2004
- Monday, 13:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Carbodies Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5223, longitude -0.15771, in the NW1 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
- 200401DM00733
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 501
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 41
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2003.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A41 in Westminster, 27 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01829
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Westminster, 11 July 2016
At the same spotRef 201601CW11489
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A41 in Westminster, 15 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11600
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A41 in Westminster, 28 June 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010190157
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the A41 in Westminster, 12 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010603221
Serious
Bus crash on the A41 in Westminster, 27 February 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010165889
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Carbodies Taxi
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200401DM00733 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.