A5201 crash in Islington on 20 December 1985 at 10:30 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1985
- Friday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52475, longitude -0.09391, in the EC1V postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501ND00788
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1985.
Slight
Bus crash on the A5201 in Islington, 17 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501ND00246
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A5201 in Islington, 11 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701NI00704
Serious
Car crash on the A5201 in Islington, 18 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001NI01168
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5201 in Islington, 29 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801ND00073
Slight
Volvo crash on the A5201 in Islington, 3 January 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010552224
Serious
Taxi crash on the A5201 in Islington, 3 December 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010222513
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198501ND00788 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Islington road accident statistics for 1985.