A3212 crash in Westminster on 16 July 2007 at 16:40 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A bus or coach and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A3212 in Westminster at 16:40 on Monday 16 July 2007. The 45-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2007
- Monday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50671, longitude -0.12736, in the SW1A postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701CW64673
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3212
- Road type
- Single 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 2004.
Serious
BMW crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 8 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TA00515
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 12 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301DM01980
Serious
Leyland crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 24 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199301CX00230
Slight
Leyland crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 30 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CW11391
Slight
Bus crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 22 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198901AD00335
Slight
Car crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 5 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010AD0004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 200701CW64673 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.