Serious A5 crash in Westminster on 9 November 2013 at 17:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A5 in Westminster at 17:40 on Saturday 9 November 2013. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 2013
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52815, longitude -0.18126, in the W9 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maida Vale, Westminster, W9 1HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301CW11575
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2004.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A5 in Westminster, 15 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401DM00068
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5 in Westminster, 9 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DD00495
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM02391
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A5 in Westminster, 4 June 2013
At the same spotRef 201301CW10711
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on a C road in Westminster, 30 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199901DP00173
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A5 in Westminster, 11 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001DM01895
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 201301CW11575 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 2013.