A5 crash in Westminster on 19 March 2005 at 16:11 involving a Yamaha XJ 600 N motorcycle
A Yamaha XJ 600 N motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A5 in Westminster at 16:11 on Saturday 19 March 2005. The 38-year-old male rider and a 26-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2005
- Saturday, 16:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha XJ 600 N
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51464, longitude -0.16249, 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 Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501CW10380
- 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
- Dual 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
- 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
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 2014.
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Van crash on the A5 in Westminster, 20 October 2014
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Triumph TT600 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 16 March 2005
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Fatal
Van crash on the A5 in Westminster, 6 December 1995
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 January 1996
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XJ 600 N
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XJ 600 N)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha XJ 600 N)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200501CW10380 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 2005.