Serious A40 crash in Westminster on 13 February 2019 at 02:41 involving a car
A car crashed on the A40 in Westminster at 02:41 on Wednesday 13 February 2019. The 52-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Feb 2019
- Wednesday, 02:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51381, longitude -0.15597, in the W1C 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010163206
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 2021.
Slight
E-scooter crash on the A40 in Westminster, 11 September 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010330632
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A41 in Westminster, 18 March 2001
5 m awayRef 200101DM00507
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 17 May 1987
5 m awayRef 198701DM00212
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 16 January 1982
5 m awayRef 1982010DM0009
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A40 in Westminster, 3 July 1991
5 m awayRef 199101DM00238
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 18 October 1989
5 m awayRef 198901DM00542
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2019010163206 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 2019.