A404 crash in Westminster on 29 February 2020 at 01:00 involving a Honda SH 125 motorcycle
A Honda SH 125 motorcycle crashed on the A404 in Westminster at 01:00 on Saturday 29 February 2020. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Feb 2020
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda SH 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52002, longitude -0.17151, in the W2 postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Little Venice, Westminster, W2 1LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010239137
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- 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
- 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 unlit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A404 in Westminster, 8 October 1984
3 m awayRef 198401DD00505
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on the A404 in Westminster, 21 February 2011
3 m awayRef 201101CW10444
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 22 September 2003
3 m awayRef 200301DM01516
Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A40 in Westminster, 10 September 2000
7 m awayRef 200001DM01893
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A40 in Westminster, 1 May 2002
7 m awayRef 200201DM00711
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A40 in Westminster, 26 March 2009
7 m awayRef 200901CW10559
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda SH 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda SH 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020010239137 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 2020.