A5 crash in Westminster on 25 December 2019 at 16:05 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Two Land Rover Range Rover Sports and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 16:05 on Wednesday 25 December 2019. A 6-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and a 3-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2019
- Wednesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Range Rover Sport and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51454, longitude -0.16227, in the W2 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
- 2019010227267
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2020.
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the A5 in Westminster, 26 January 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010232918
Slight
Yamaha XJ crash on the A5 in Westminster, 7 September 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010530897
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 30 October 2008
6 m awayRef 200801CW11915
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A5 in Westminster, 5 January 1996
6 m awayRef 199601DP00049
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 April 2003
6 m awayRef 200301DM00540
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A5 in Westminster, 4 May 1998
6 m awayRef 199801DP00191
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Sport)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Sport)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2019010227267 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.