A501 crash in Islington on 18 June 2003 at 09:30 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A Piaggio Vespa motorcycle and a Peugeot 406 were involved in a crash on the A501 in Islington at 09:30 on Wednesday 18 June 2003. The 31-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 2003
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Vespa and Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52749, longitude -0.08873, in the EC1V postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bunhill, Islington, EC1Y 0TJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301EO01422
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 501
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1200
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1993.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A501 in Hackney, 29 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199301GH00614
Slight
Car crash on the A501 in Islington, 26 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801GH00044
Slight
Van crash on the A501 in Islington, 4 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701GH00075
Slight
Car crash on the A501 in Hackney, 12 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010GH0142
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A501 in Islington, 29 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801GH00051
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the A1200 in Islington, 6 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010602206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Vespa)
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 200301EO01422 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 2003.