A4202 crash in Westminster on 17 February 1987 at 17:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a van were involved in a crash on the A4202 in Westminster at 17:35 on Tuesday 17 February 1987. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 1987
- Tuesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50828, longitude -0.15469, in the W1K postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701CD00022
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4202
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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 29 March 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 29 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CV00078
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 9 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198501CV00006
Fatal
Car crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 14 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501CV00192
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 30 December 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010227933
Slight
Honda NC750 crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 23 June 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010451509
Slight
Bus crash on the A4202 in Westminster, 28 March 1985
10 m awayRef 198501CV00073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198701CD00022 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.