A201 crash in Camden on 25 March 2008 at 09:20 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2008
- Tuesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52085, longitude -0.10616, in the EC1M postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holborn & Covent Garden, Camden, EC1N 7RR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Camden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801EO40317
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 201
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2014.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A201 in Camden, 6 February 2014
At the same spotRef 201401EO40118
Slight
Rover Sterling crash on the A201 in Islington, 30 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199501NI00593
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in Islington, 25 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199301NI00130
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A201 in Camden, 27 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010600455
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A201 in Camden, 30 July 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010421361
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in Camden, 9 March 1987
10 m awayRef 198701EO00102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 200801EO40317 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 2008.