C road crash in Westminster W1S on 24 September 1982 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on a C road in Westminster at 17:20 on Friday 24 September 1982. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1982
- Friday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51157, longitude -0.14116, in the W1S postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010CD0241
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2013.
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Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on a C road in Westminster, 13 January 2012
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Slight
Van crash on a C road in Westminster, 20 November 2000
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Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on a C road in Westminster, 24 September 2010
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Serious
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on a C road in Westminster, 24 January 2007
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1982010CD0241 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 1982.