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A501 crash in Westminster on 3 October 1997 at 18:00 involving a Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle

A Kawasaki ER500 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A501 in Westminster at 18:00 on Friday 3 October 1997. A 46-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
3 Oct 1997
Friday, 18:00
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki ER500
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52403, longitude -0.14425, in the W1W postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Westminster

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701EK00475
Council area
Westminster
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
501
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
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
4201

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

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 24 April 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ER500

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    498 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ER500)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    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 199701EK00475 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.