C road crash in Westminster W1W on 17 December 2015 at 14:25 involving a Volkswagen Tiguan
A Volkswagen Tiguan hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 14:25 on Thursday 17 December 2015. A 19-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
- 17 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51921, longitude -0.14099, in the W1W postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501CW11933
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 7 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010DM0474
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 20 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901DM00552
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 12 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199501DM00427
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Westminster, 23 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901DM00583
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 14 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198401DM00379
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 30 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198801DM00480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201501CW11933 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.