Serious A4 crash in Westminster on 26 August 1992 at 12:08 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 12:08 on Wednesday 26 August 1992. A 63-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Aug 1992
- Wednesday, 12:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51211, longitude -0.11894, in the WC2B 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199201CX00296
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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 9 August 1983.
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 9 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010CB0175
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 10 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW66461
Slight
Tractor crash on the A4 in Westminster, 12 April 2019
3 m awayRef 2019010174698
Slight
Honda WW125EX2 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 21 March 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010170324
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A4 in Westminster, 7 May 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010573607
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 16 September 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010532467
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199201CX00296 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 1992.