A40 crash in Westminster on 23 December 1995 at 19:19 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A40 in Westminster at 19:19 on Saturday 23 December 1995. A 53-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1995
- Saturday, 19:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51454, longitude -0.14738, in the W1C 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
- 199501DM00710
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 2002.
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 14 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01382
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501DM00708
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01199
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 6 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM00907
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW10823
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 21 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00386
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199501DM00710 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 1995.