Serious A4207 crash in Westminster on 31 December 2004 at 18:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4207 in Westminster at 18:00 on Friday 31 December 2004. A 56-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 2004
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52244, longitude -0.20153, in the W9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colville, Kensington and Chelsea, W11 1AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401CW10293
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4207
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1992.
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on a C road in Westminster, 15 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DR00247
Slight
Kawasaki AR125 crash on a C road in Westminster, 3 October 1991
10 m awayRef 199101DR00244
Slight
Car crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 3 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198501DR00178
Serious
Car crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 20 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198901DR00021
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 10 September 1984
14 m awayRef 198401DR00221
Slight
Bus crash on the A4207 in Westminster, 9 April 1987
14 m awayRef 198701DR00067
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (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 200401CW10293 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.