A4 crash in Westminster on 23 June 2014 at 12:47 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 12:47 on Monday 23 June 2014. The 46-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 23 Jun 2014
- Monday, 12:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Transporter and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.502, longitude -0.15925, in the SW1X 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
- 201401CW10850
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- 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 21 December 1988.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 21 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198801BC00522
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 8 June 1988
At the same spotRef 198801BC00227
Slight
Van crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 6 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010BC0528
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 10 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198901AL00294
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM00165
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 30 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM01573
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 201401CW10850 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 2014.