B302 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 17 April 2001 at 08:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea at 08:30 on Tuesday 17 April 2001. The 44-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2001
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48418, longitude -0.16386, in the SW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Royal Hospital, Kensington and Chelsea, SW3 4SZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101BS00288
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 302
- Road type
- Single 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 20 May 2000.
Slight
Piaggio crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 20 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001BS00380
Slight
Car crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 11 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198801BC00306
Slight
Car crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801BC00191
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801BS00459
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 15 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199801BS00537
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 4 June 2014
At the same spotRef 201401BS70360
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200101BS00288 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2001.