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Serious C road crash in Camden WC1H on 23 January 1997 at 17:30 involving a Honda CG125B motorcycle

A Honda CG125B motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Camden at 17:30 on Thursday 23 January 1997. A male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Jan 1997
Thursday, 17:30
Vehicles
1
Honda CG125B
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52423, longitude -0.12897, in the WC1H postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden.

Map of where the crash happened in Camden

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701EO00035
Council area
Camden
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
C

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 July 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda CG125B

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years
    Engine capacity
    124 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda CG125B)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda CG125B)

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 199701EO00035 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Camden road accident statistics for 1997.