A5 crash in Westminster on 5 September 2014 at 19:00 involving a Mercedes S Class
A Mercedes S Class hit a pedestrian on the A5 in Westminster at 19:00 on Friday 5 September 2014. A 3-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
- 5 Sep 2014
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes S Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52182, longitude -0.17286, 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 Little Venice, Westminster, W2 1LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401CW11326
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 5
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2002.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 23 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00471
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Honda Insight crash on the A5 in Westminster, 13 October 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010023625
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A5 in Westminster, 10 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW11617
Serious
Volvo crash on the A5 in Westminster, 9 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00492
Slight
Volvo crash on the A5 in Westminster, 13 December 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11906
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12070
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes S Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes S Class)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201401CW11326 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.