Unclassified road crash in Westminster W1U on 23 February 2022 at 09:20 involving an LEVC TX taxi
An LEVC TX taxi and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Westminster at 09:20 on Wednesday 23 February 2022. A female passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2022
- Wednesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- LEVC TX and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51825, longitude -0.15508, in the W1U 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
- 2022010361871
- 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
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 17 August 1983
5 m awayRef 1983010DM0310
Slight
Piaggio crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 28 April 1997
9 m awayRef 199701DM00218
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 2 August 1984
9 m awayRef 198401DM00327
Slight
Honda CRV crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 28 April 2015
9 m awayRef 201501CW10539
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 13 July 2010
28 m awayRef 201001CW11483
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 2 May 2018
35 m awayRef 2018010105509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: LEVC TX
Taxi or private hire car
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 745 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2022010361871 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 2022.