A402 crash in Westminster on 26 December 2014 at 16:16 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A402 in Westminster at 16:16 on Friday 26 December 2014. The male driver of the car 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2014
- Friday, 16:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51238, longitude -0.16777, in the W2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hyde Park, Westminster, W2 2TZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401CW11971
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 402
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 serious injury crash on 25 December 2018.
Serious
Honda ANC125E crash on a C road in Westminster, 25 December 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010154303
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 11 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DP00101
Slight
Honda CG125B crash on a C road in Westminster, 21 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DP00254
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A402 in Westminster, 6 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00653
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A40 in Westminster, 3 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501DP00517
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A402 in Westminster, 12 April 2008
At the same spotRef 200801CW10380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201401CW11971 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.