A4 crash in Westminster on 27 May 2012 at 10:45 involving a London Taxis Int. Txii
A van and a London Taxis Int. Txii were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 10:45 on Sunday 27 May 2012. The 39-year-old male driver of the van 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
- 27 May 2012
- Sunday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and London Taxis Int. Txii
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50433, longitude -0.14763, in the W1J postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knightsbridge & Belgravia, Westminster, SW1X 7BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201CW10668
- 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
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 July 1994.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A4 in Westminster, 15 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CD00237
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW10559
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A4 in Westminster, 5 June 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10723
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 12 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198501AD00178
Slight
Minibus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 2 October 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW11401
Serious
Renault Trucks crash on the A4 in Westminster, 6 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10258
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: London Taxis Int. Txii
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 201201CW10668 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.