A401 crash in Westminster on 30 June 2015 at 20:15 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A401 in Westminster at 20:15 on Tuesday 30 June 2015. A 59-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
- 30 Jun 2015
- Tuesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51222, longitude -0.13148, in the W1D 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
- 201501CW10944
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 401
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 1983.
Slight
Bus crash on the A401 in Westminster, 30 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010CB0159
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Westminster, 5 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199201CX00276
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A401 in Westminster, 29 June 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CV00144
Slight
Taxi crash on the A401 in Westminster, 25 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CV00170
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A401 in Westminster, 14 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CV00221
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A401 in Westminster, 30 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW10771
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 201501CW10944 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.