A5 crash in Westminster on 17 December 2012 at 10:50 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 10:50 on Monday 17 December 2012. The 29-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai and a 48-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52833, longitude -0.1814, in the W9 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maida Vale, Westminster, W9 1HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201CW11780
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2011.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 28 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW10465
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A5 in Westminster, 19 August 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11217
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW11348
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A5 in Westminster, 6 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01134
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5 in Westminster, 13 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01387
Slight
Van crash on the A5 in Westminster, 25 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DD00135
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201201CW11780 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.