Unclassified road crash in Islington N1 on 1 October 2009 at 22:15 involving a van
A van crashed on an unclassified road in Islington at 22:15 on Thursday 1 October 2009. A 28-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2009
- Thursday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53397, longitude -0.1111, in the N1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter's & Canalside, Islington, N1 8BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901TA00124
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 1996.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 23 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601NI00391
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Islington, 9 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010596511
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 14 April 1998
10 m awayRef 199801NI00209
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Islington, 5 December 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010005224
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on a C road in Islington, 31 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199201NI00802
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Islington, 1 May 2000
14 m awayRef 200001NI00559
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 200901TA00124 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 2009.