A401 crash in Westminster on 5 July 2007 at 18:50 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A401 in Westminster at 18:50 on Thursday 5 July 2007. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2007
- Thursday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5126, longitude -0.13014, in the W1D 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
- 200701CW65345
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 401
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A401 in Westminster, 2 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CV00051
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A401 in Westminster, 5 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CD00343
Slight
Car crash on the A401 in Westminster, 26 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TA00539
Slight
Car crash on the A401 in Westminster, 27 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198501CV00250
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A401 in Westminster, 10 May 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010375563
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A401 in Westminster, 3 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010597429
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
- 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 200701CW65345 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.