A402 crash in Westminster on 8 September 2016 at 11:28 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A402 in Westminster at 11:28 on Thursday 8 September 2016. A 38-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2016
- Thursday, 11:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51016, longitude -0.18688, in the W2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bayswater, Westminster, W2 4NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010021102
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 402
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 411
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 August 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010DR0212
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DR00132
Slight
Aprilia Mojito crash on the A402 in Westminster, 18 July 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW64516
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 3 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DR00196
Slight
Peugeot Looxor crash on the A402 in Westminster, 20 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02369
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 29 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DR00217
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016010021102 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.