Serious A201 crash in the City of London on 5 November 2012 at 18:16 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A201 in the City of London at 18:16 on Monday 5 November 2012. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Nov 2012
- Monday, 18:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51425, longitude -0.10442, in the EC4M 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 Borough & Bankside, Southwark, SE1 9JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of London
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201CP00346
- 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
- 201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A201 in the City of London, 5 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198448P449184
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in the City of London, 8 August 1991
At the same spotRef 199101CP00177
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A201 in the City of London, 10 January 2007
At the same spotRef 200701CP00020
Serious
Van crash on the A201 in the City of London, 20 May 1980
At the same spotRef 198048P422280
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in the City of London, 15 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CP00476
Slight
Volvo crash on the A201 in the City of London, 6 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CP00137
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201201CP00346 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.