A5 crash in Westminster on 31 December 1981 at 19:45 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 19:45 on Thursday 31 December 1981. The 28-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LVTJC16
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 28, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198101LVTJC16 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 1981.