A4206 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 7 November 2017 at 20:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A4206 in Kensington and Chelsea at 20:00 on Tuesday 7 November 2017. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2017
- Tuesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51065, longitude -0.19752, in the W11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bayswater, Westminster, W2 4NG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010069611
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4206
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 5 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A4206 in Kensington and Chelsea, 5 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198601BH00061
Slight
Car crash on the A4206 in Kensington and Chelsea, 6 January 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010487769
Serious
Car crash on the A4206 in Kensington and Chelsea, 28 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199701BH00267
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the A4206 in Kensington and Chelsea, 3 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001BS00797
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A4206 in Kensington and Chelsea, 10 June 2003
10 m awayRef 200301BS00321
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4206 in Kensington and Chelsea, 19 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200301BS00213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 2017010069611 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2017.