A401 crash in Westminster on 10 March 1999 at 16:35 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A401 in Westminster at 16:35 on Wednesday 10 March 1999. A 20-year-old female pedestrian and the 32-year-old male rider were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 1999
- Wednesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51147, longitude -0.13292, in the W1D 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
- 199901CD00087
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 401
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 1998.
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A401 in Westminster, 6 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CD00447
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Westminster, 2 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM01311
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Westminster, 14 June 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CV00092
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A401 in Westminster, 27 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199201CV00035
Fatal
Mercedes E Class crash on the A401 in Westminster, 25 December 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010566856
Serious
Kia Niro crash on the A401 in Westminster, 3 August 2023
10 m awayRef 2023010458788
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 199901CD00087 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 1999.