A4 crash in Westminster on 19 May 2012 at 03:25 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A Ford Galaxy taxi hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 03:25 on Saturday 19 May 2012. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2012
- Saturday, 03:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.509, longitude -0.12438, in the WC2N 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
- 201201CW10600
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 18 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901AD00230
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 28 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CX00091
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 30 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CB00107
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 21 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CB00074
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 28 August 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CX00307
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A4 in Westminster, 3 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CX00067
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- 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 201201CW10600 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 2012.