A40 crash in Westminster on 6 October 2004 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 18:00 on Wednesday 6 October 2004. A 31-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
- 6 Oct 2004
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5156, longitude -0.13795, 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 West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401DM01328
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2005.
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW10911
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 27 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00208
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 11 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM00917
Slight
Honda SCV100 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 March 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW10564
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 10 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010614804
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 April 2002
10 m awayRef 200201DM00555
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 200401DM01328 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.