A4201 crash in Westminster on 10 May 1989 at 14:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4201 in Westminster at 14:00 on Wednesday 10 May 1989. The 20-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
- 10 May 1989
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51382, longitude -0.14121, in the W1B 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
- 198901CD00089
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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 22 February 1988.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 22 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CD00024
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 24 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001CD00086
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 21 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CD00134
Slight
Lancia Beta crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 20 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199001CD00146
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 7 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001CD00072
Slight
Car crash on the A4201 in Westminster, 24 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198901CD00115
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198901CD00089 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.