A4 crash in Westminster on 17 June 1998 at 15:10 involving a London Taxis Int. TX1
A London Taxis Int. TX1 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 15:10 on Wednesday 17 June 1998. The 22-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1998
- Wednesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- London Taxis Int. TX1 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50448, longitude -0.1475, in the W1J postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801CD00222
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- Unclassified
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 18 February 1996.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 18 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CD00063
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CV00276
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CV00191
Serious
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 9 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CV00135
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 9 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CW11900
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 15 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198901CV00266
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: London Taxis Int. TX1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 199801CD00222 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 1998.