Serious C road crash in Islington N1 on 16 June 2017 at 18:23 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Islington at 18:23 on Friday 16 June 2017. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 2017
- Friday, 18:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53354, longitude -0.12005, in the N1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the King's Cross, Camden, WC1H 8EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010043387
- 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
- 20 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 1994.
Slight
MCW crash on a C road in Islington, 9 February 1994
At the same spotRef 199401NI00061
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Islington, 17 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TB00395
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Islington, 9 June 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010579653
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 25 August 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010ND0501
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Islington, 8 December 2021
13 m awayRef 2021010348767
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Islington, 27 February 1988
14 m awayRef 198801ND00118
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017010043387 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.