A4 crash in Westminster on 2 October 1997 at 20:35 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A4 in Westminster at 20:35 on Thursday 2 October 1997. The 29-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
- 2 Oct 1997
- Thursday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51277, longitude -0.11474, in the WC2R 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
- 199701CX00348
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 1998.
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 23 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CX00394
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 7 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CX00461
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4 in Westminster, 30 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM01003
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 4 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CX00445
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01949
Serious
Kawasaki Z550 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701CX00443
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199701CX00348 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.