A4 crash in Westminster on 27 April 2017 at 16:35 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Honda Pes 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 16:35 on Thursday 27 April 2017. The 23-year-old male rider of the Honda Pes 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2017
- Thursday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Honda Pes 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51238, longitude -0.11876, in the WC2B 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010034312
- 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
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 30 July 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 30 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CB00159
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010CB0192
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A4 in Westminster, 13 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201601CW10506
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 31 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198701CB00265
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4 in Westminster, 29 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501TA00305
Slight
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A4 in Westminster, 22 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TA00354
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Pes 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda Pes 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017010034312 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.