Unclassified road crash in Kensington and Chelsea W11 on 7 March 2020 at 15:10 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea at 15:10 on Saturday 7 March 2020. A 35-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2020
- Saturday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51292, longitude -0.20001, in the W11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bayswater, Westminster, W2 4NG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010241650
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2021.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 12 September 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010332181
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Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 5 March 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010167184
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 9 December 1983
11 m awayRef 1983010BH0302
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 6 January 1985
11 m awayRef 198501BH00011
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 11 November 1990
11 m awayRef 199001BH00286
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 August 1985
11 m awayRef 198501BH00201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2020010241650 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2020.