A404 crash in Westminster on 26 May 1997 at 20:40 involving a Honda CBR1000F motorcycle
A Honda CBR1000F motorcycle crashed on the A404 in Westminster at 20:40 on Monday 26 May 1997. The 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 1997
- Monday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR1000F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51945, longitude -0.18494, 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
- 199701DP00200
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 8 July 1997.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A404 in Westminster, 8 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DP00279
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A40 in Westminster, 12 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW10092
Slight
Honda CB600F crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 December 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW11820
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A40 in Westminster, 12 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW10948
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 28 September 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010534733
Slight
Honda crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200001DM01999
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR1000F
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR1000F)
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 199701DP00200 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.