A40 crash in Westminster on 31 December 2016 at 16:30 involving a Land Rover Range Rover
A Land Rover Range Rover hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 16:30 on Saturday 31 December 2016. A 61-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Range Rover
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51332, longitude -0.15894, in the W1C 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
- 2016010014872
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- T or staggered junction
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010DM0479
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DM00405
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 17 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601DM00582
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DM00473
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 September 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010021528
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 4 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DM00003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Range Rover)
- 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 2016010014872 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 2016.