Serious A302 crash in Westminster on 28 July 2012 at 11:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A302 in Westminster at 11:30 on Saturday 28 July 2012. The 27-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jul 2012
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50024, longitude -0.12748, in the SW1P postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Waterloo & South Bank, Lambeth, SE1 7GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TA00675
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 302
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 11 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198501AD00039
Slight
Leyland crash on the A302 in Westminster, 4 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CX00443
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 23 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010AD0194
Slight
Car crash on the A302 in Westminster, 5 July 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11241
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A302 in Westminster, 28 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW11956
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A302 in Westminster, 1 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TA00307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 201201TA00675 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.