A5200 crash in Camden on 30 September 2018 at 20:35 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A5200 in Camden at 20:35 on Sunday 30 September 2018. A 24-year-old female passenger and a 22-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2018
- Sunday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53348, longitude -0.12222, in the N1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the King's Cross, Camden, WC1H 8EP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010135902
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5200
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 18 September 1995.
Slight
Lancia Delta crash on the A5200 in Camden, 18 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199501NI00499
Slight
Taxi crash on the B513 in Camden, 10 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198801ND00662
Slight
Car crash on the A5200 in Camden, 9 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401NI00153
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on a C road in Islington, 11 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200301EO00266
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Camden, 22 June 2014
10 m awayRef 201401EO40408
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A5200 in Camden, 15 October 2014
10 m awayRef 201401EO49001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2018010135902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Camden road accident statistics for 2018.