Serious A4202 crash in Westminster on 9 January 1985 at 08:21 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4202 in Westminster at 08:21 on Wednesday 9 January 1985. The 23-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jan 1985
- Wednesday, 08:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50828, longitude -0.15469, in the W1K postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501CV00006
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4202
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 29 March 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 29 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CV00078
Fatal
Car crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 14 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501CV00192
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 17 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CD00022
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 30 December 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010227933
Slight
Honda NC750 crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 23 June 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010451509
Slight
Bus crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 28 March 1985
10 m awayRef 198501CV00073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 23, on vehicle 1 (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 198501CV00006 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 1985.