A5 crash in Westminster on 14 November 1986 at 15:04 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A5 in Westminster at 15:04 on Friday 14 November 1986. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1986
- Friday, 15:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52168, longitude -0.1726, in the W2 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
- 198601DD00566
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 serious injury crash on 16 February 2006.
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 16 February 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW10090
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Westminster, 13 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10468
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 25 September 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW11373
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 17 February 1993
At the same spotRef 199301DD00058
Serious
Bus crash on the A5 in Westminster, 23 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW11413
Slight
Honda CBF500 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 20 June 2011
10 m awayRef 201101CW11066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
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 198601DD00566 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.