A5201 crash in Islington on 19 May 2015 at 08:45 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2015
- Tuesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52216, longitude -0.10628, in the EC1R postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holborn & Covent Garden, Camden, EC1N 7RR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501EO40550
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A5201 in Islington, 23 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601NI00350
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5201 in Islington, 20 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201501EO40961
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5201 in Islington, 23 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200201EO00023
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5201 in Islington, 30 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601ND00339
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A5201 in Islington, 19 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501NI00138
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A5201 in Islington, 12 June 2013
At the same spotRef 201301EO40323
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 201501EO40550 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.