A1 crash in Islington on 19 December 2012 at 21:11 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1 in Islington at 21:11 on Wednesday 19 December 2012. The 34-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 21:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5649, longitude -0.13333, in the N19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tollington, Islington, N19 3NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201EO40830
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 29 September 2008.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A1 in Islington, 29 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200801EO40683
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A1 in Islington, 28 January 2007
At the same spotRef 200701EO40129
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1 in Islington, 1 May 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010105084
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1 in Islington, 4 January 1993
10 m awayRef 199301NH00002
Serious
Honda NHX110WH crash on the A1 in Islington, 21 November 2012
10 m awayRef 201201EO40714
Slight
MCW crash on the A1 in Islington, 23 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701NH00149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 34, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201201EO40830 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.