C road crash in Westminster W1H on 3 May 2018 at 07:55 involving a Volkswagen Transporter lorry
A Volkswagen Transporter lorry hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 07:55 on Thursday 3 May 2018. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2018
- Thursday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51878, longitude -0.16477, in the W1H postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010105694
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 July 2000.
Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Westminster, 20 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01477
Slight
Saab 900 crash on a C road in Westminster, 6 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199501DM00197
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 19 June 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010DD0268
Slight
Honda SH125 crash on a C road in Westminster, 16 August 2020
16 m awayRef 2020010262856
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Westminster, 18 November 2015
20 m awayRef 201501CW11727
Serious
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 24 May 1990
20 m awayRef 199001DD00236
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- First point of impact
- Back
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2018010105694 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 2018.