B413 crash in Westminster on 6 May 2015 at 16:00 involving a Metrocab Metrocab taxi
A Metrocab Metrocab taxi hit a pedestrian on the B413 in Westminster at 16:00 on Wednesday 6 May 2015. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 May 2015
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Metrocab Metrocab
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52409, longitude -0.18865, in the W9 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maida Vale, Westminster, W9 1HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501CW10585
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 413
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 1986.
Slight
Bus crash on the B413 in Westminster, 4 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198601DR00225
Slight
Van crash on the B413 in Westminster, 11 October 1984
10 m awayRef 198401DR00244
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B413 in Westminster, 11 August 2002
10 m awayRef 200201DM01379
Slight
Car crash on the B413 in Westminster, 28 May 2005
10 m awayRef 200501CW10727
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on the B413 in Westminster, 4 November 2008
14 m awayRef 200801CW11970
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B413 in Westminster, 17 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199701DP00579
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Metrocab Metrocab
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,446 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Metrocab Metrocab)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201501CW10585 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 2015.