A4 crash in Westminster on 9 January 2019 at 18:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A4 in Westminster at 18:20 on Wednesday 9 January 2019. A 66-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2019
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51262, longitude -0.11447, in the WC2R 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, WC2R 2AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010156583
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 17 December 1997
5 m awayRef 199701CX00442
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westminster, 30 March 1982
5 m awayRef 1982010CB0071
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A4 in Westminster, 13 January 2016
7 m awayRef 201601CW10532
Serious
Honda VFR800A crash on the A4 in Westminster, 19 December 2010
8 m awayRef 201001TA00408
Fatal
Honda crash on the A4 in Westminster, 3 May 1991
9 m awayRef 199101CX00128
Slight
Honda crash on the A4 in Westminster, 27 January 1995
9 m awayRef 199501CX00030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019010156583 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 2019.