A4 crash in the City of London on 9 February 2012 at 20:00 involving a Honda SH125 motorcycle
A Honda SH125 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A4 in the City of London at 20:00 on Thursday 9 February 2012. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda SH125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51586, longitude -0.10896, 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
- 201201CP00057
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1990.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on a C road in the City of London, 4 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199001CP00166
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in the City of London, 5 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CP00280
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in the City of London, 1 February 2018
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in the City of London, 1 February 2018
4 m awayRef 2018480274817
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Serious
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5 m awayRef 2020480996291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda SH125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda SH125)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201201CP00057 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 2012.