A503 crash in Camden on 18 August 2005 at 00:35 involving a Sachs XTC motorcycle
A Sachs XTC motorcycle and a Mazda 626 were involved in a crash on the A503 in Camden at 00:35 on Thursday 18 August 2005. The 28-year-old male rider of the Sachs XTC motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2005
- Thursday, 00:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Sachs XTC and Mazda 626
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5374, longitude -0.14023, in the NW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Camden Town, Camden, NW1 9PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Camden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501EO40938
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 503
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2006.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A503 in Camden, 1 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200601EO41183
Slight
Volvo crash on the A503 in Camden, 20 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501EO41181
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A503 in Camden, 17 February 1993
At the same spotRef 199301EK00084
Slight
Dennis crash on the A503 in Camden, 20 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200101EK00460
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on a C road in Camden, 13 August 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010053533
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Camden, 7 March 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010240695
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Sachs XTC
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Mazda 626
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sachs XTC)
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 200501EO40938 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 2005.