A400 crash in Camden on 16 September 2015 at 23:55 involving a Toyota Prius taxi
A car and a Toyota Prius taxi were involved in a crash on the A400 in Camden at 23:55 on Wednesday 16 September 2015. A 36-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2015
- Wednesday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53686, longitude -0.13681, in the NW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501EK40809
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 400
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 September 2001.
Serious
Car crash on the A400 in Camden, 10 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101EK01112
Slight
Honda VT500E crash on a C road in Camden, 17 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199001EK00475
Slight
Taxi crash on the A400 in Camden, 25 December 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010008729
Slight
Triumph Tiger crash on the A400 in Camden, 30 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501EK40864
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Camden, 26 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501EK00208
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A400 in Camden, 20 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201EK00259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201501EK40809 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 2015.