B323 crash in Westminster on 21 December 2022 at 18:56 involving a BMW M3
A BMW M3 hit a pedestrian on the B323 in Westminster at 18:56 on Wednesday 21 December 2022. A 65-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2022
- Wednesday, 18:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW M3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49486, longitude -0.13222, 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
- 2022010417719
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 323
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1998.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B323 in Westminster, 9 October 1998
4 m awayRef 199801AB00395
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the B323 in Westminster, 6 June 2002
4 m awayRef 200201DM00922
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B323 in Westminster, 24 April 2018
9 m awayRef 2018010103759
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 24 February 2014
9 m awayRef 201401CW10206
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B323 in Westminster, 3 October 2003
11 m awayRef 200301DM01532
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the B323 in Westminster, 17 November 2019
12 m awayRef 2019010218947
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW M3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW M3)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2022010417719 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.