B500 crash in the City of London on 25 July 2001 at 14:00 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B500 in the City of London at 14:00 on Wednesday 25 July 2001. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 2001
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51935, longitude -0.10262, in the EC1M postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holborn & Covent Garden, Camden, EC1N 7RR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101CP00239
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 500
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2019.
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 9 September 2019
7 m awayRef 2019480912074
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B500 in the City of London, 26 September 1996
14 m awayRef 199601NI00560
Slight
Car crash on the B500 in the City of London, 17 March 1988
14 m awayRef 198848P412888
Slight
Car crash in the City of London, 6 November 1983
14 m awayRef 198348P446383
Slight
Aprilia crash on the B500 in the City of London, 29 November 2001
22 m awayRef 200101CP00394
Slight
Car crash on the B500 in the City of London, 14 June 1987
22 m awayRef 198748P433687
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200101CP00239 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 2001.