Unclassified road crash in Westminster W1D on 23 December 2004 at 14:55 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Westminster at 14:55 on Thursday 23 December 2004. The 39-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51291, longitude -0.13287, in the W1D postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401CW10285
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 February 1988.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 29 February 1988
28 m awayRef 198801CD00029
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 9 August 1983
28 m awayRef 1983010CD0188
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 30 November 1993
32 m awayRef 199301CD00358
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 9 July 1986
32 m awayRef 198601CD00152
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 2 April 1986
36 m awayRef 198601CD00045
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Westminster, 1 March 1991
36 m awayRef 199101CD00033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, 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 200401CW10285 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 2004.