A40(M) crash in Westminster on 18 October 1996 at 12:20 involving an MZ motorcycle
An MZ motorcycle crashed on the A40(M) in Westminster at 12:20 on Friday 18 October 1996. The 36-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 1996
- Friday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- MZ
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51969, longitude -0.18292, 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
- 199601DP00453
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1997.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 12 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199701DP00449
Slight
Hyundai i800 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 21 June 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010115990
Serious
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 10 June 2016
14 m awayRef 201601CW10792
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 8 September 1988
14 m awayRef 198801DD00410
Slight
Honda crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 27 March 1999
14 m awayRef 199901DP00110
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A40(M) in Westminster, 21 December 1996
14 m awayRef 199601DP00550
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MZ
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 291 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (MZ)
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 199601DP00453 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.