A402 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 29 August 2017 at 16:45 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 hit a pedestrian on the A402 in Kensington and Chelsea at 16:45 on Tuesday 29 August 2017. A 72-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
- 29 Aug 2017
- Tuesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50844, longitude -0.19962, in the W8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Campden, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 7NU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010056361
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- 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
- C
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 serious injury crash on 13 November 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Kensington and Chelsea, 13 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198601BH00274
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Kensington and Chelsea, 30 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010BH0311
Slight
Lexus RX400 crash on the A402 in Kensington and Chelsea, 28 October 2020
8 m awayRef 2020010276247
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Kensington and Chelsea, 29 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200101BS00586
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198901BH00241
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Kensington and Chelsea, 9 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200201BS00749
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 2017010056361 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2017.