A4 crash in Westminster on 14 May 1996 at 21:00 involving a Honda C90M motorcycle
A Honda C90M motorcycle crashed on the A4 in Westminster at 21:00 on Tuesday 14 May 1996. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 1996
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda C90M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50769, longitude -0.1406, in the W1J 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
- 199601CD00185
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 serious injury crash on 19 October 2009.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 October 2009
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Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 5 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CV00224
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 24 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CD00298
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Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 8 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01572
Serious
Honda crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901CD00016
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 29 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CD00361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90M
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda C90M)
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 199601CD00185 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 1996.