Serious B415 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 11 November 2025 at 22:25 involving an LEVC TX taxi
An LEVC TX taxi crashed on the B415 in Kensington and Chelsea at 22:25 on Tuesday 11 November 2025. A 75-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and a 73-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Tuesday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- LEVC TX
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51332, longitude -0.20428, in the W11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colville, Kensington and Chelsea, W11 1AL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010608899
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 415
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 August 1984.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B415 in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 August 1984
7 m awayRef 198401BH00180
Slight
Honda Pes 125 crash on a C road in Kensington and Chelsea, 12 September 2020
15 m awayRef 2020010267281
Slight
Honda GLR 125 crash on a C road in Kensington and Chelsea, 12 April 2021
15 m awayRef 2021010301170
Slight
Taxi crash on the B415 in Kensington and Chelsea, 11 October 1989
16 m awayRef 198901BH00283
Serious
Bus crash on the B415 in Kensington and Chelsea, 4 January 1984
16 m awayRef 198401BH00003
Slight
Car crash on the B415 in Kensington and Chelsea, 22 July 1988
16 m awayRef 198801BH00176
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: LEVC TX
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 73, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (LEVC TX)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 75, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (LEVC TX)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025010608899 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2025.