Serious A404 crash in Westminster on 2 February 1983 at 08:42 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A404 in Westminster at 08:42 on Wednesday 2 February 1983. A 22-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 1983
- Wednesday, 08:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52559, longitude -0.20402, in the W9 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010DR0028
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A404 in Westminster, 9 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010DR0032
Slight
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5 m awayRef 2025010583366
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A404 in Westminster, 15 August 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010262183
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A404 in Westminster, 18 August 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010592633
Slight
Lexus RX 450 crash on the A404 in Westminster, 12 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010608977
Slight
Honda NSC crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 13 October 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010472250
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1983010DR0028 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 1983.