A4 crash in Westminster on 31 October 1986 at 23:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 23:55 on Friday 31 October 1986. A 19-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1986
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50448, longitude -0.1475, in the W1J 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
- 198601CV00276
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 18 February 1996.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 18 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CD00063
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CV00191
Serious
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 9 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CV00135
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 9 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CW11900
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 15 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198901CV00266
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CD00222
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 198601CV00276 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.