A40 crash in Westminster on 31 October 2019 at 19:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 19:30 on Thursday 31 October 2019. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2019
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51322, longitude -0.15833, 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
- 2019010216435
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2023.
Slight
HGV crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 2 February 2023
1 m awayRef 2023010424986
Serious
Van crash on the A40 in Westminster, 17 August 1988
4 m awayRef 198801DM00403
Slight
Jaguar XK Series crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 August 2008
4 m awayRef 200801CW11239
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 December 2011
4 m awayRef 201101CW12588
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 November 2018
4 m awayRef 2018010166415
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 August 2013
4 m awayRef 201301CW11055
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019010216435 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.