A40 crash in Westminster on 28 March 2014 at 17:48 involving a bicycle
A bicycle hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 17:48 on Friday 28 March 2014. A 31-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 28 Mar 2014
- Friday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5149, longitude -0.1446, in the W1C postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401CW10368
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1992.
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 April 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DM00128
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00479
Slight
Aprilia RSV Mille crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00647
Slight
Volvo crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11470
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 2 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01533
Slight
Honda XR125L crash on the A40 in Westminster, 10 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11642
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 201401CW10368 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 2014.