A501 crash in Islington on 2 July 2015 at 08:15 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A motorcycle and a Ford Galaxy taxi were involved in a crash on the A501 in Islington at 08:15 on Thursday 2 July 2015. The 49-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2015
- Thursday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52871, longitude -0.09404, in the EC1V postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bunhill, Islington, EC1Y 0TJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501EO40474
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 501
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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 21 December 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A501 in Islington, 21 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501GD00576
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A501 in Islington, 20 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201001EO40735
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A501 in Islington, 25 May 2011
At the same spotRef 201101EO40274
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 31 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501EO40220
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A501 in Islington, 13 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199201NI00349
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the A501 in Islington, 15 February 1992
At the same spotRef 199201ND00096
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- 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
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201501EO40474 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 2015.