C road crash in Westminster W1W on 14 May 2018 at 22:57 involving a DAF Trucks
A DAF Trucks and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Westminster at 22:57 on Monday 14 May 2018. The 46-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2018
- Monday, 22:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51912, longitude -0.14083, in the W1W postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Westminster, W1W 6BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010107968
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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 15 March 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 15 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010DM0082
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 14 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198401DM00379
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 7 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010DM0474
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 30 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198801DM00480
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Westminster, 23 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901DM00583
Slight
Morris Marina crash on a C road in Westminster, 26 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199201DM00386
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 46, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2018010107968 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 2018.