B450 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 5 December 2025 at 20:16 involving a Honda NSC motorcycle
A Honda NSC motorcycle and a Toyota Auris were involved in a crash on the B450 in Kensington and Chelsea at 20:16 on Friday 5 December 2025. The 27-year-old male rider of the Honda NSC motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2025
- Friday, 20:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda NSC and Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51647, longitude -0.20905, in the W11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colville, Kensington and Chelsea, W11 1AL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010613690
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 450
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 412
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2025.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B450 in Kensington and Chelsea, 10 October 2025
12 m awayRef 2025010607252
Slight
Sym Jet crash on the B450 in Kensington and Chelsea, 14 May 2022
14 m awayRef 2022010376755
Serious
Datsun Bluebird crash on a C road in Kensington and Chelsea, 6 November 1990
18 m awayRef 199001BH00284
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B450 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 April 2004
18 m awayRef 200401BS00170
Slight
Car crash on the B450 in Kensington and Chelsea, 25 June 1986
18 m awayRef 198601BH00129
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the B450 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 July 2023
21 m awayRef 2023010455760
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda NSC
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda NSC)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025010613690 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.