A400 crash in Camden on 23 December 2018 at 18:30 involving a Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle
A Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle and a Honda Insight were involved in a crash on the A400 in Camden at 18:30 on Sunday 23 December 2018. The 23-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125EX2 and Honda Insight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53938, longitude -0.14245, in the NW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Camden Town, Camden, NW1 9PT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010154042
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 400
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 502
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2015.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A400 in Camden, 9 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501EK40464
Slight
Bus crash on the A503 in Camden, 22 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901EK00144
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A400 in Camden, 26 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010EK0497
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A400 in Camden, 27 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901EK00648
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A400 in Camden, 5 February 2014
At the same spotRef 201401EK40046
Serious
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A400 in Camden, 5 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200501EO41134
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125EX2
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Insight
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125EX2)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018010154042 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.