A3216 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 16 December 2025 at 09:30 involving a Mercedes Vito taxi
A Mercedes Vito taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea at 09:30 on Tuesday 16 December 2025. The 35-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49585, longitude -0.15868, in the SW1X postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knightsbridge & Belgravia, Westminster, SW1X 7BY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010615755
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3216
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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 2 March 2020.
Slight
BMW M4 crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea, 2 March 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010239437
Slight
BMW M2 crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 December 2016
8 m awayRef 2016010007188
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea, 28 February 2004
9 m awayRef 200401BS00090
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea, 8 February 2015
9 m awayRef 201501BS70055
Slight
LEVC TX crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea, 12 January 2025
35 m awayRef 2025010553539
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 24 March 1986
47 m awayRef 198601BC00100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 35, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025010615755 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.