A5 crash in Westminster on 20 October 2022 at 10:00 involving a Seat Tarraco
A bicycle and a Seat Tarraco were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 10:00 on Thursday 20 October 2022. The 20-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2022
- Thursday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Seat Tarraco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51434, longitude -0.16189, 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 Marylebone, Westminster, W1H 7HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010407389
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5204
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 1996.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A5 in Westminster, 3 April 1996
4 m awayRef 199601DP00157
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 19 June 1998
4 m awayRef 199801DP00272
Slight
MCW crash on the A5 in Westminster, 2 January 1996
4 m awayRef 199601DP00002
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A5 in Westminster, 15 September 1993
4 m awayRef 199301DD00356
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 16 June 1987
6 m awayRef 198701DM00261
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A5 in Westminster, 1 April 1992
6 m awayRef 199201DD00136
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Tarraco
Car
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2022010407389 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 2022.