Unclassified road crash in Islington N4 on 20 March 2017 at 08:31 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Islington at 08:31 on Monday 20 March 2017. The 48-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2017
- Monday, 08:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56465, longitude -0.1091, in the N4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brownswood, Hackney, N4 2HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010026622
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2005.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 22 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501EO41471
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 11 November 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010001312
Slight
Yamaha TDM 850 crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 13 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TA00577
Serious
Volvo 244 crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 1 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199001NH00183
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 12 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199301NH00089
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 3 August 1986
10 m awayRef 198601NH00310
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2017010026622 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 2017.