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Unclassified road crash in the City of London EC3M on 24 February 2018 at 23:45 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in the City of London at 23:45 on Saturday 24 February 2018. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
24 Feb 2018
Saturday, 23:45
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51227, longitude -0.07941, in the EC3M postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London. It is one of the crashes that make up the Candlewick, City of London, EC4R 9AF area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2018480290268
Council area
City of London
Police force
City of London
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street
Speed limit
20 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
Estimated chance it was serious
0%
Estimated chance it was slight
100%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2019.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Taxi or private hire car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
    First point of impact
    Back
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Journey as part of work
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    50 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Home area deprivation
    40 to 50% least 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 2018480290268 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 2018.