A3217 crash in Westminster on 21 March 2012 at 07:02 involving a Suzuki GSF 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 650 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A3217 in Westminster at 07:02 on Wednesday 21 March 2012. A 26-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 21 Mar 2012
- Wednesday, 07:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSF 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49779, longitude -0.14314, in the SW1E postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knightsbridge & Belgravia, Westminster, SW1X 7BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201CW10335
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3217
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 August 2006.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A3217 in Westminster, 1 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200601TA00165
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 16 October 1990
At the same spotRef 199001AB00540
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A3217 in Westminster, 23 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM00141
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A3217 in Westminster, 8 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501AB00218
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 19 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198801AR00240
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3217 in Westminster, 4 August 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11471
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 650)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201201CW10335 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 2012.