Serious A4206 crash in Westminster on 18 February 2004 at 19:50 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A bicycle and a Mercedes CLK Class were involved in a crash on the A4206 in Westminster at 19:50 on Wednesday 18 February 2004. The 27-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 2004
- Wednesday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51981, longitude -0.17698, in the W2 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Venice, Westminster, W2 1LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401DM00220
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4206
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 404
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 31 July 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A404 in Westminster, 31 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DP00338
Serious
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A404 in Westminster, 1 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601DP00366
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A404 in Westminster, 11 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00047
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A404 in Westminster, 6 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01890
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 2 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DD00051
Slight
Honda SCV100F crash on the A404 in Westminster, 9 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200901CW10258
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 200401DM00220 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.