A40 crash in Westminster on 10 November 2005 at 13:00 involving a Honda XR125L motorcycle
A Honda XR125L motorcycle hit two pedestrians on the A40 in Westminster at 13:00 on Thursday 10 November 2005. The 41-year-old male rider, a 58-year-old female pedestrian and a male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2005
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda XR125L
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5149, longitude -0.1446, in the W1C postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501CW11642
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 52%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 48%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Westminster, 28 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW10368
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 9 April 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DM00128
Serious
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00479
Slight
Aprilia RSV Mille crash on the A40 in Westminster, 24 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00647
Slight
Volvo crash on the A40 in Westminster, 20 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CW11470
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 2 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01533
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda XR125L
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda XR125L)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda XR125L)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda XR125L)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200501CW11642 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.