A4208 crash in the City of London on 11 May 2012 at 21:00 involving a Peugeot Expert taxi
A taxi and a Peugeot Expert taxi were involved in a crash on the A4208 in the City of London at 21:00 on Friday 11 May 2012. The 44-year-old male driver of the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2012
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5157, longitude -0.10494, 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
- 201201CP00154
- 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
- 4208
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 201
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A201 in the City of London, 1 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198148P446981
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4208 in the City of London, 1 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200801CP00137
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A201 in the City of London, 1 May 1994
At the same spotRef 199401CP00063
Slight
Car crash on the A4208 in the City of London, 21 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199701CP00281
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in the City of London, 22 January 1981
At the same spotRef 198148P403781
Slight
Honda C90 crash on the A201 in the City of London, 17 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199801CP00029
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Expert
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 201201CP00154 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.