A41 crash in Westminster on 15 October 2001 at 13:35 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A41 in Westminster at 13:35 on Monday 15 October 2001. The 21-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2001
- Monday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5146, longitude -0.15413, in the W1H postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101DM02170
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 29 March 2022.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A41 in Westminster, 29 March 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010368241
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A41 in Westminster, 6 March 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010240429
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A41 in Westminster, 23 August 1990
10 m awayRef 199001DM00380
Slight
Bus crash on the A41 in Westminster, 14 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198901DM00446
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A41 in Westminster, 27 October 1993
10 m awayRef 199301DM00404
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Westminster, 29 January 1993
10 m awayRef 199301DM00031
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 21, on vehicle 1 (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 200101DM02170 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 2001.