C road crash in Westminster SW1E on 17 February 2017 at 06:35 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in Westminster at 06:35 on Friday 17 February 2017. The 55-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2017
- Friday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50047, longitude -0.13842, in the SW1E 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, SW1Y 5HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010023467
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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 31 December 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 31 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198401AR00310
Serious
Chrysler crash on a C road in Westminster, 20 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200401RX00016
Slight
Audi A4 crash on a C road in Westminster, 1 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200401DM01393
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 19 December 1988
14 m awayRef 198801AD05036
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Westminster, 6 June 1999
20 m awayRef 199901RX00039
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 21 June 1982
20 m awayRef 1982010AD5010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 55, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2017010023467 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.