A5204 crash in Westminster on 7 March 2024 at 12:57 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A5204 in Westminster at 12:57 on Thursday 7 March 2024. A 32-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2024
- Thursday, 12:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51675, longitude -0.14772, 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 West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024010498447
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5204
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 17 May 1987
11 m awayRef 198701DM00211
Slight
Van crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 27 July 1993
11 m awayRef 199301DM00254
Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 5 September 2002
15 m awayRef 200201DM01526
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Westminster, 8 August 2006
15 m awayRef 200601CW11046
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A5204 in Westminster, 14 June 2011
15 m awayRef 201101TA01235
Slight
Audi A5 crash on a C road in Westminster, 18 June 2017
15 m awayRef 2017010043548
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,276 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024010498447 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 2024.