B310 crash in Westminster on 24 December 1987 at 14:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B310 in Westminster at 14:20 on Thursday 24 December 1987. The 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1987
- Thursday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48881, longitude -0.13488, in the SW1V 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
- 198701AR00301
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 310
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1992.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
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 198701AR00301 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 1987.