A4 crash in Westminster on 22 March 1986 at 19:40 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 19:40 on Saturday 22 March 1986. The 23-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 1986
- Saturday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50871, longitude -0.12542, in the WC2R postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601AD00051
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 20 January 1989.
Slight
Van crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901AD00023
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A4 in Westminster, 27 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199201CX00221
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 23 June 1987
At the same spotRef 198701AD00118
Serious
Volvo crash on the A4 in Westminster, 7 February 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010359119
Serious
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A4 in Westminster, 27 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010588951
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A4 in Westminster, 30 March 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010172178
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, 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 198601AD00051 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 1986.