A40 crash in Westminster on 22 November 2018 at 19:35 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A40 in Westminster at 19:35 on Thursday 22 November 2018. The 22-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2018
- Thursday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51319, longitude -0.15836, in the W1K 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
- 2018010166415
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4202
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
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 9 August 2013.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 August 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW11055
Serious
Van crash on the A40 in Westminster, 17 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DM00403
Slight
Jaguar XK Series crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 August 2008
At the same spotRef 200801CW11239
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW12588
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200801CW12097
Slight
Scania crash on the A40 in Westminster, 23 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11383
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018010166415 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.