A5205 crash in Westminster on 15 January 2007 at 18:17 involving a Volvo S80
A motorcycle and a Volvo S80 were involved in a crash on the A5205 in Westminster at 18:17 on Monday 15 January 2007. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2007
- Monday, 18:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Volvo S80
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52611, longitude -0.17731, in the NW8 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
- 200701CW10051
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5205
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2009.
Serious
Car crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 23 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12760
Slight
Honda crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 3 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701DM00368
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 7 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00706
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 7 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00387
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 13 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW10966
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 16 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DM00037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volvo S80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200701CW10051 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 2007.