A4 crash in Westminster on 21 August 1989 at 22:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4 in Westminster at 22:00 on Monday 21 August 1989. The 28-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 1989
- Monday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50976, longitude -0.12336, in the WC2R 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
- 198901CB00141
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2001.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02183
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CB0094
Slight
HGV crash on the A4 in Westminster, 7 April 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW10427
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the A4 in Westminster, 13 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CX00171
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00283
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 24 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010601506
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 198901CB00141 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 1989.