A302 crash in Westminster on 30 December 2018 at 16:50 involving a Nissan X-Trail
A Nissan X-Trail hit a pedestrian on the A302 in Westminster at 16:50 on Sunday 30 December 2018. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan X-Trail
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49817, longitude -0.14701, in the SW1W postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knightsbridge & Belgravia, Westminster, SW1X 7BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010154990
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 302
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 302
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 serious injury crash on 14 December 1998.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 14 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801AB00510
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A302 in Westminster, 27 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CX00463
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A302 in Westminster, 4 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701AB00419
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A302 in Westminster, 30 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801AB00528
Serious
Car crash on the A302 in Westminster, 2 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198901AD00343
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A302 in Westminster, 16 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00852
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan X-Trail
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan X-Trail)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 2018010154990 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.