Serious unclassified road crash in Camden NW1 on 10 May 2012 at 07:40 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a BMW X5 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Camden at 07:40 on Thursday 10 May 2012. The 27-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 May 2012
- Thursday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and BMW X5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53302, longitude -0.14733, in the NW1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Pancras & Somers Town, Camden, NW1 2JP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Camden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TB00496
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 26 August 2016.
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 26 August 2016
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 6 January 1998
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 26 December 2004
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Serious
Dodge Caliber crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 15 June 2014
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Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 18 October 2009
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Camden, 18 July 2005
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
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 201201TB00496 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.