C road crash in Camden NW1 on 22 December 2002 at 16:30 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Camden at 16:30 on Sunday 22 December 2002. A 17-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2002
- Sunday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52766, longitude -0.13255, in the NW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Pancras & Somers Town, Camden, NW1 2JP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201EO01889
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1996.
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on a C road in Camden, 12 December 1996
28 m awayRef 199601EK00589
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Camden, 13 February 1983
30 m awayRef 1983010EK0083
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Camden, 24 July 2003
32 m awayRef 200301EO01258
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Camden, 15 April 1985
40 m awayRef 198501EK00188
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Camden, 23 October 1985
40 m awayRef 198501EK00581
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Camden, 13 May 1983
41 m awayRef 1983010EK0292
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200201EO01889 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 2002.