A4 crash in Westminster on 20 December 2014 at 01:55 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 01:55 on Saturday 20 December 2014. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 01:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50959, longitude -0.133, in the SW1Y postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401CW11943
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1995.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 29 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501CD00441
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Westminster, 26 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901CD00268
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010145892
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A4 in Westminster, 5 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM02157
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 15 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CD00294
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 16 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CD00395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 201401CW11943 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.