A4 crash in Westminster on 19 October 2018 at 13:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 13:00 on Friday 19 October 2018. The 25-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2018
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50964, longitude -0.133, in the SW1Y 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
- 2018010145892
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Second road class
- C
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 29 December 1995.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Westminster, 29 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501CD00441
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Westminster, 26 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901CD00268
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 December 2014
At the same spotRef 201401CW11943
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A4 in Westminster, 5 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM02157
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 15 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CD00294
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 16 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CD00395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 25, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018010145892 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.