A404 crash in Westminster on 22 July 1990 at 00:01 involving a Tomos motorcycle
A Tomos motorcycle crashed on the A404 in Westminster at 00:01 on Sunday 22 July 1990. The 42-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
- 22 Jul 1990
- Sunday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Tomos
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51981, longitude -0.17354, 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
- 199001DD00351
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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 11 July 2011.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A404 in Westminster, 11 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11255
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on the A404 in Westminster, 25 October 2019
1 m awayRef 2019010213994
Serious
Yamaha Tracer crash on the A404 in Westminster, 8 November 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010342458
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 19 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198701DD00593
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A404 in Westminster, 1 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200401DM01314
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A404 in Westminster, 14 September 1990
10 m awayRef 199001DD00444
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Tomos
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Tomos)
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 199001DD00351 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 1990.