Serious C road crash in Westminster W1D on 16 December 2014 at 16:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Westminster at 16:25 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51264, longitude -0.13259, in the W1D postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the St James's, Westminster, WC2H 7JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401CW11920
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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 19 April 1999.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Westminster, 19 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199901CD00146
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 2 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198601CD00045
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on a C road in Westminster, 4 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901CD00008
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Westminster, 10 February 2011
At the same spotRef 201101CW10093
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 29 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198801CD00029
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 9 August 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010CD0188
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201401CW11920 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.