Serious B310 crash in Westminster on 14 March 1997 at 07:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B310 in Westminster at 07:50 on Friday 14 March 1997. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Mar 1997
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49998, longitude -0.1533, in the SW1X 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
- 199701AB00123
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 310
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 310
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B310 in Westminster, 16 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198401AL00158
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B310 in Westminster, 22 September 1992
10 m awayRef 199201AB00348
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B310 in Westminster, 27 September 2012
10 m awayRef 201201TA00781
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B310 in Westminster, 9 October 2015
14 m awayRef 201501CW11521
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B310 in Westminster, 25 September 1989
14 m awayRef 198901AL00323
Slight
Scania crash on the B310 in Westminster, 18 September 2002
14 m awayRef 200201DM01698
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199701AB00123 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 1997.