A5 crash in Westminster on 15 September 2004 at 19:39 involving a Yamaha XJR 1300 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha XJR 1300 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 19:39 on Wednesday 15 September 2004. The 53-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XJR 1300 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
- 15 Sep 2004
- Wednesday, 19:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha XJR 1300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52586, longitude -0.17861, in the W9 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401DM01242
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 413
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 slight injury crash on 8 August 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM01065
Serious
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At the same spotRef 199501DP00116
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 16 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TA00511
Slight
MAN crash on the A5 in Westminster, 10 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00043
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 June 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010111589
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the B413 in Westminster, 6 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200501TA00003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha XJR 1300
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha XJR 1300)
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 200401DM01242 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.