A40 crash in Westminster on 30 March 2019 at 20:27 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 20:27 on Saturday 30 March 2019. A 15-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2019
- Saturday, 20:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51319, longitude -0.15851, 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
- 2019010172300
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2025.
Slight
Nissan Leaf crash on the A40 in Westminster, 14 August 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010592780
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 August 2013
10 m awayRef 201301CW11055
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 November 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010166415
Slight
Jaguar XK Series crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 August 2008
10 m awayRef 200801CW11239
Serious
Van crash on the A40 in Westminster, 17 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801DM00403
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201101CW12588
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2019010172300 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.