A315 crash in Westminster on 24 April 1986 at 19:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A315 in Westminster at 19:00 on Thursday 24 April 1986. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 1986
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50143, longitude -0.18263, in the SW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601BD00117
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2012.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A315 in Westminster, 21 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201201BS70206
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A315 in Westminster, 20 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200601BS70023
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A315 in Westminster, 9 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001BS01033
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A315 in Westminster, 1 August 1991
At the same spotRef 199101BD00246
Slight
Austin Taxi crash on the A315 in Westminster, 2 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199201BD00301
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A315 in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 September 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010467500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 198601BD00117 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.