A501 crash in Westminster on 16 March 2013 at 03:26 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius hit a pedestrian on the A501 in Westminster at 03:26 on Saturday 16 March 2013. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 03:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52203, longitude -0.15772, in the W1U 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
- 201301CW10285
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 501
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2015.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A501 in Westminster, 28 July 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW11104
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A501 in Westminster, 14 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11245
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A501 in Westminster, 15 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM00243
Slight
Volvo crash on the A501 in Westminster, 23 August 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11421
Slight
Taxi crash on the A501 in Westminster, 21 February 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW10178
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Westminster, 17 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DM00468
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201301CW10285 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 2013.