A4 crash in the City of London on 1 February 2018 at 20:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4 in the City of London at 20:15 on Thursday 1 February 2018. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2018
- Thursday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51589, longitude -0.10893, in the EC4A postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holborn & Covent Garden, Camden, EC1N 7RR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018480342047
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2018.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in the City of London, 1 February 2018
1 m awayRef 2018480274817
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in the City of London, 5 January 1994
3 m awayRef 199401CP00280
Slight
Honda SH125 crash on the A4 in the City of London, 9 February 2012
3 m awayRef 201201CP00057
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on a C road in the City of London, 4 May 1990
3 m awayRef 199001CP00166
Serious
E-scooter crash on the A4 in the City of London, 12 October 2020
4 m awayRef 2020480996291
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A4 in the City of London, 14 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025481722204
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018480342047 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 2018.