A503 crash in Islington on 21 August 2012 at 16:44 involving a Volvo bus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2012
- Tuesday, 16:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56202, longitude -0.11066, in the N7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arsenal, Islington, N4 2DX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201EO40501
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 503
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2017.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A503 in Islington, 17 April 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010038175
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A503 in Islington, 27 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701NH00147
Slight
MCW crash on the A503 in Islington, 31 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199401NH00414
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A503 in Islington, 12 September 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TB00958
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A503 in Islington, 29 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401EO00452
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A503 in Islington, 6 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501EO40450
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201201EO40501 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 2012.