A402 crash in Westminster on 15 December 2017 at 05:17 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A402 in Westminster at 05:17 on Friday 15 December 2017. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2017
- Friday, 05:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51185, longitude -0.176, in the W2 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hyde Park, Westminster, W2 2TZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010078063
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 402
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 June 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601DD00289
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4209 in Westminster, 12 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200501CW10956
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 19 February 1987
10 m awayRef 198701DD00062
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 27 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198901DD00481
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4209 in Westminster, 17 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200001DM09445
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4209 in Westminster, 29 July 1995
10 m awayRef 199501DP00283
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 2017010078063 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.