A302 crash in Westminster on 23 December 2014 at 07:07 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara hit a pedestrian on the A302 in Westminster at 07:07 on Tuesday 23 December 2014. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 07:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49937, longitude -0.12967, in the SW1H 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, SW1Y 5HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401CW11956
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 302
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 6 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901AD00072
Slight
Car crash on the A302 in Westminster, 12 September 1997
At the same spotRef 199701CX00335
Slight
Car crash on the A302 in Westminster, 9 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801AD00082
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 21 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198801AD00243
Slight
Car crash on the A302 in Westminster, 12 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198701AD00166
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A302 in Westminster, 20 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501CX00076
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- 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 201401CW11956 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.