A5205 crash in Westminster on 16 February 2017 at 19:00 involving a Mini First
A motorcycle and a Mini First were involved in a crash on the A5205 in Westminster at 19:00 on Thursday 16 February 2017. The 35-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2017
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mini First
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53495, longitude -0.16383, in the NW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Regent's Park, Westminster, NW8 7AW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010018893
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5205
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 525
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2008.
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 20 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200801CW12070
Slight
Car crash on the B525 in Westminster, 3 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801DM00733
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B525 in Westminster, 9 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TA00464
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 29 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW11318
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 30 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CW10429
Serious
Renault Espace crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 14 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199401DM00343
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini First
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2017010018893 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 2017.