Unclassified road crash in Westminster SW1V on 18 May 2004 at 19:05 involving an Aprilia motorcycle
An Aprilia motorcycle and a Renault 5 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Westminster at 19:05 on Tuesday 18 May 2004. The 44-year-old male rider of the Aprilia motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2004
- Tuesday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia and Renault 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48628, longitude -0.13784, in the SW1V postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pimlico South, Westminster, SW1V 3LG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401DM00653
- Council area
- Westminster
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 2009.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 11 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12668
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 25 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601AB00563
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 18 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01501
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 8 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198801AR00030
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 9 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010AR0290
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 15 January 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 651 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia)
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 200401DM00653 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.