C road crash in Westminster SW1A on 12 June 2018 at 09:57 involving a Kawasaki ER650 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ER650 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Westminster at 09:57 on Tuesday 12 June 2018. The 54-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER650 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a snow-covered dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 09:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ER650 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5067, longitude -0.12879, in the SW1A 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
- 2018010113779
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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 26 October 2018.
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Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 2 June 1993
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Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 28 August 1987
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ER650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ER650)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010113779 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.