C road crash in Westminster W9 on 22 September 2018 at 16:30 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on a C road in Westminster at 16:30 on Saturday 22 September 2018. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2018
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52159, longitude -0.18397, in the W9 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Venice, Westminster, W2 1LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010134413
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1994.
Slight
Honda Integra crash on a C road in Westminster, 12 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199401DR00083
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 26 April 1985
20 m awayRef 198501DR00091
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on a C road in Westminster, 26 July 1990
22 m awayRef 199001DR00178
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 18 April 1983
28 m awayRef 1983010DR0097
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Westminster, 22 September 2017
30 m awayRef 2017010060431
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on a C road in Westminster, 22 September 2018
30 m awayRef 2018010134238
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018010134413 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.