Serious unclassified road crash in Camden NW3 on 27 December 2003 at 00:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Camden at 00:40 on Saturday 27 December 2003. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 2003
- Saturday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5424, longitude -0.16079, in the NW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Primrose Hill, Camden, NW1 7SX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301EO02135
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1990.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 13 July 1990
30 m awayRef 199001EK00390
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Camden, 17 August 2025
48 m awayRef 2025010592639
Serious
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 30 December 1990
51 m awayRef 199001EH00517
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 25 June 1984
58 m awayRef 198401EH00263
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 18 July 2014
60 m awayRef 201401EK40573
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 25 April 2015
61 m awayRef 201501EK40316
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 200301EO02135 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 2003.