B404 crash in Westminster on 14 October 2016 at 20:22 involving a Bentley Continental
A Bentley Continental hit a pedestrian on the B404 in Westminster at 20:22 on Friday 14 October 2016. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2016
- Friday, 20:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bentley Continental
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51183, longitude -0.12686, in the WC2E 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
- 2016010023338
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 404
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 slight injury crash on 3 December 1992.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B404 in Westminster, 3 December 1992
At the same spotRef 199201CX00427
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B404 in Westminster, 22 February 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CX00050
Slight
BYD Seal Design EV crash on the B402 in Westminster, 25 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010605784
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B402 in Westminster, 14 August 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010393993
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B404 in Westminster, 8 November 1990
10 m awayRef 199001CX00508
Serious
Taxi crash on the B402 in Westminster, 26 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198601CB00229
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bentley Continental
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 5,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Bentley Continental)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2016010023338 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.