A302 crash in Westminster on 22 July 2014 at 12:00 involving a Volvo V70
A Volvo V70 and a Honda CB500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A302 in Westminster at 12:00 on Tuesday 22 July 2014. The 56-year-old male rider of the Honda CB500 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
- 22 Jul 2014
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V70 and Honda CB500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50059, longitude -0.14994, 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
- 201401CW11040
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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 18 June 2001.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A302 in Westminster, 18 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM01175
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A302 in Westminster, 30 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW11019
Serious
Honda NC 750 XA crash on the A302 in Westminster, 24 May 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010110156
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A302 in Westminster, 11 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CW11524
Slight
Taxi crash on the A302 in Westminster, 2 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198501AL00026
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 10 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010076686
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CB500
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CB500)
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 201401CW11040 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.