C road crash in Islington N1 on 5 October 2015 at 10:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Islington at 10:55 on Monday 5 October 2015. The 34-year-old male rider and a 46-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2015
- Monday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53272, longitude -0.10858, in the N1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter's & Canalside, Islington, N1 8BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501EO40757
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 1996.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Islington, 23 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199601NI00207
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on a C road in Islington, 30 June 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010452444
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Islington, 15 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010603883
Slight
Audi A8 crash on a C road in Islington, 16 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200601EO40009
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Islington, 20 December 2011
14 m awayRef 201101EO40786
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Islington, 9 September 1988
14 m awayRef 198801ND00577
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201501EO40757 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.