Unclassified road crash in Kensington and Chelsea W14 on 5 April 2002 at 23:30 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A Honda C90 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea at 23:30 on Friday 5 April 2002. The 29-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Apr 2002
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda C90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50147, longitude -0.20624, in the W14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Campden, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 7NU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201BS00195
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1983.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
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 200201BS00195 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 2002.