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C road crash in the City of London EC2V on 8 April 1998 at 17:50 involving a Yamaha motorcycle

A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in the City of London at 17:50 on Wednesday 8 April 1998. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
8 Apr 1998
Wednesday, 17:50
Vehicles
1
Yamaha
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51395, longitude -0.0935, in the EC2V postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199801CP00090
Council area
City of London
Police force
City of London

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2025.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Yamaha

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years
    Engine capacity
    599 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199801CP00090 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 1998.