B507 crash in Westminster on 12 December 2024 at 04:30 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the B507 in Westminster at 04:30 on Thursday 12 December 2024. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Thursday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53195, longitude -0.1773, in the NW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Regent's Park, Westminster, NW8 7AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024010548861
- 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
- 507
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 11 December 2022.
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B507 in Westminster, 11 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010415856
Serious
Kia EV6 crash on the B507 in Westminster, 13 December 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010548953
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the B507 in Westminster, 31 January 2002
5 m awayRef 200201DM00170
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B507 in Westminster, 27 May 2007
5 m awayRef 200701CW10610
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the B507 in Westminster, 30 May 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010379448
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B507 in Westminster, 13 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010603395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2024010548861 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.