A201 crash in the City of London on 12 January 2009 at 19:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A201 in the City of London at 19:15 on Monday 12 January 2009. The 30-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2009
- Monday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51768, longitude -0.10514, in the EC4A postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London. 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 the City of London
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901CP00003
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A201 in the City of London, 17 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198448P402084
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A201 in the City of London, 13 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199501CP00159
Slight
Honda VTR1000F crash on the A201 in the City of London, 5 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199901NI00256
Slight
Van crash on the A201 in the City of London, 17 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901CP00061
Slight
Peugeot crash on the A201 in the City of London, 30 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CP00169
Slight
Van crash on the A201 in the City of London, 16 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301CP00257
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 200901CP00003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 2009.