A302 crash in Westminster on 21 April 1986 at 17:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A302 in Westminster at 17:30 on Monday 21 April 1986. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 1986
- Monday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49917, longitude -0.13028, in the SW1H 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
- 198601AR00086
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 302
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2018.
Slight
Honda SH125 crash on the A302 in Westminster, 13 February 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010089860
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A302 in Westminster, 6 April 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010369476
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A302 in Westminster, 28 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200101DM00612
Slight
Bus crash on the A302 in Westminster, 3 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701AR00227
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A302 in Westminster, 23 November 1990
14 m awayRef 199001AB00507
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the A302 in Westminster, 6 May 1994
14 m awayRef 199401AB00151
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198601AR00086 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.