B302 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 12 April 2012 at 18:05 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea at 18:05 on Thursday 12 April 2012. The 24-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2012
- Thursday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.484, longitude -0.16415, in the SW3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Royal Hospital, Kensington and Chelsea, SW3 4SZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201BS70200
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 302
- 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2005.
Slight
Honda CB600F crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 7 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200501BS70014
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 20 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001BS01085
Slight
Car crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501BC00451
Slight
Car crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 14 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198601BC00437
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 25 April 2004
14 m awayRef 200401BS00221
Slight
Kawasaki ZR750 crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 6 March 2003
14 m awayRef 200301BS00126
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 24, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201201BS70200 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2012.