A4 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 14 November 2025 at 23:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea at 23:30 on Friday 14 November 2025. The 20-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2025
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49733, longitude -0.16774, in the SW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brompton & Hans Town, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7 2PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010611541
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- 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
- 4
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 10 September 2011.
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 10 September 2011
5 m awayRef 201101BS70424
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 27 April 1995
5 m awayRef 199501BS00233
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 15 December 1989
5 m awayRef 198901BC00528
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 30 September 2002
5 m awayRef 200201BS00590
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 12 June 1986
5 m awayRef 198601BC00209
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 15 May 1993
5 m awayRef 199301BC00166
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Car
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025010611541 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 2025.