A40 crash in Westminster on 27 December 2014 at 14:16 involving a bicycle
A bicycle hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 14:16 on Saturday 27 December 2014. A 61-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
- 27 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 14:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51411, longitude -0.15141, in the W1K postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401CW11972
- 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
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2001.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 5 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00220
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A40 in Westminster, 14 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00271
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 6 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010CD0160
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 25 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CD0239
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501DM00298
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 6 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00597
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 201401CW11972 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.