A5 crash in Westminster on 24 December 2013 at 03:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 03:30 on Tuesday 24 December 2013. The 40-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2013
- Tuesday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51409, longitude -0.16164, in the W2 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
- 201301CW11865
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- A
- Second road number
- 5204
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2011.
Slight
Volvo XC90 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 27 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW12380
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 17 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DP00146
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 6 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DP00435
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00561
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5 in Westminster, 23 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501DM00348
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 16 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01452
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 201301CW11865 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.