A302 crash in Westminster on 4 August 2017 at 17:20 involving a Porsche Macan
A Porsche Macan hit a pedestrian on the A302 in Westminster at 17:20 on Friday 4 August 2017. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2017
- Friday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche Macan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49708, longitude -0.14619, in the SW1W postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knightsbridge & Belgravia, Westminster, SW1X 7BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010052170
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 302
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 312
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 1997.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 20 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199701AB00238
Slight
Dennis crash on the A302 in Westminster, 24 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM02455
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A302 in Westminster, 30 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11479
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A302 in Westminster, 8 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801AB00496
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A302 in Westminster, 29 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW10387
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A302 in Westminster, 5 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW11494
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Macan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Porsche Macan)
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 2017010052170 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 2017.