B401 crash in Westminster on 22 October 2022 at 02:10 involving an LEVC TX taxi
An LEVC TX taxi hit a pedestrian on the B401 in Westminster at 02:10 on Saturday 22 October 2022. A 52-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2022
- Saturday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- LEVC TX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51262, longitude -0.12136, in the WC2E postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010406154
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 401
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 July 2014.
Serious
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the B401 in Westminster, 30 July 2014
2 m awayRef 201401CW11080
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B401 in Westminster, 7 May 1997
2 m awayRef 199701CX00146
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B401 in Westminster, 6 May 1994
2 m awayRef 199401CX00149
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the B401 in Westminster, 12 April 2002
2 m awayRef 200201DM00577
Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B401 in Westminster, 7 March 1996
2 m awayRef 199601CX00069
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B401 in Westminster, 22 April 2009
2 m awayRef 200901CW10762
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: LEVC TX
Taxi or private hire car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (LEVC TX)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2022010406154 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.