B500 crash in Camden on 12 October 2012 at 08:25 involving a Honda VFR 1200 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2012
- Friday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda VFR 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51798, longitude -0.107, in the EC1N postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holborn & Covent Garden, Camden, EC1N 7RR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201EK40564
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 500
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2009.
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the B500 in Camden, 15 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW12694
Slight
Taxi crash on the B500 in Camden, 20 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201001CP00275
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on the B500 in Camden, 15 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201601EK40283
Slight
Bus crash on the B500 in Camden, 12 July 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010586214
Slight
Honda SH125 crash on the A40 in the City of London, 24 May 2018
6 m awayRef 2018480306108
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B500 in Camden, 2 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199501EO00459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda VFR 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,237 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda VFR 1200)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201201EK40564 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Camden road accident statistics for 2012.