A1 crash in Islington on 12 March 2008 at 08:20 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2008
- Wednesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54616, longitude -0.10338, in the N5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Laycock, Islington, N1 2AL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801EO40232
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1991.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1 in Islington, 4 May 1991, ref 199101ND00249
At the same spotRef 199101ND00249
Slight
Austin Taxi crash on the A1 in Islington, 21 November 1990
At the same spotRef 199001ND00734
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Islington, 10 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198901ND00721
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A1 in Islington, 7 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501NI00278
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1 in Islington, 4 May 1991, ref 199101NH00207
At the same spotRef 199101NH00207
Slight
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the A1 in Islington, 19 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301EO02151
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200801EO40232 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 2008.