C road crash in Islington N5 on 21 December 2012 at 19:00 involving an LDV Maxus van
A bicycle and an LDV Maxus van were involved in a crash on a C road in Islington at 19:00 on Friday 21 December 2012. The 25-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2012
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and LDV Maxus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5609, longitude -0.09743, in the N5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haringey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arsenal, Islington, N4 2DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201GD10837
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Islington, 2 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701NH00064
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Islington, 5 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601NH00454
Slight
Honda crash on a C road in Islington, 26 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199001GN00181
Slight
Skoda Roomster crash on a C road in Islington, 13 September 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010531890
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 10 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901NI00628
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 9 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199901NH00133
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: LDV Maxus
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 25, on vehicle 1 (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 201201GD10837 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.