Unclassified road crash in Westminster SW1P on 19 November 2021 at 16:30 involving a Nissan Leaf taxi
A Nissan Leaf taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Westminster at 16:30 on Friday 19 November 2021. The 54-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2021
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Leaf and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49553, longitude -0.13771, in the SW1P postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vincent Square, Westminster, SW1P 4BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021010344896
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 2019.
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Honda WW125 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 18 December 2019
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 18 September 2019
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 21 May 2025
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Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 2 February 2005
4 m awayRef 200501CW10124
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 19 December 1983
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 23 November 1982
4 m awayRef 1982010AR0272
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Leaf
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 54, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2021010344896 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 2021.