A5 crash in Westminster on 26 December 2018 at 07:00 involving an Audi Q2
An Audi Q2 and a car were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 07:00 on Wednesday 26 December 2018. The 19-year-old female driver of the Audi Q2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q2 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51911, longitude -0.16893, 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 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
- 2018010154482
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4205
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 2 September 2004.
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Westminster, 2 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TA00439
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 7 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501DP00194
Slight
Volvo crash on the A5 in Westminster, 27 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW11089
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A5 in Westminster, 22 January 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10011
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A5 in Westminster, 14 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW11281
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A5 in Westminster, 11 July 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW10886
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q2
Car
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi Q2)
- 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 2018010154482 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.