A5201 crash in Islington on 14 January 2006 at 14:40 involving a bicycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 2006
- Saturday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52251, longitude -0.1035, in the EC1M postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bunhill, Islington, EC1Y 0TJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601EO40030
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 18 March 1991.
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the A5201 in Islington, 18 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199101ND00158
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5201 in Islington, 21 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901ND00278
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5201 in Islington, 16 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201EO00925
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5201 in Islington, 11 May 2011
At the same spotRef 201101EO40237
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A5201 in Islington, 28 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701NI00615
Slight
Volkswagen Caddymaxi crash on the A5201 in Islington, 5 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010595953
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 37, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200601EO40030 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 2006.