Serious unclassified road crash in Westminster NW8 on 21 December 2023 at 17:55 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Westminster at 17:55 on Thursday 21 December 2023. The 24-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 2023
- Thursday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52617, longitude -0.17727, in the NW8 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010485427
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5205
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2020.
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 25 November 2020
2 m awayRef 2020010281441
Serious
Car crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 23 December 2009
4 m awayRef 200901CW12760
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 7 December 1998
4 m awayRef 199801DM00706
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 7 July 1999
4 m awayRef 199901DM00387
Slight
Honda crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 3 July 1997
4 m awayRef 199701DM00368
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A5205 in Westminster, 16 January 1999
4 m awayRef 199901DM00037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 24, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023010485427 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 2023.