C road crash in Islington N5 on 23 May 2020 at 19:40 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Islington at 19:40 on Saturday 23 May 2020. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2020
- Saturday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55548, longitude -0.10559, in the N5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highbury, Islington, N5 1FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010248852
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1989.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Islington, 9 December 1989
4 m awayRef 198901NH00606
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Islington, 17 May 1989
4 m awayRef 198901NH00241
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Islington, 16 June 1993
4 m awayRef 199301NH00243
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Islington, 14 November 1986
4 m awayRef 198601NH00470
Serious
Mercedes crash on a C road in Islington, 2 December 1999
6 m awayRef 199901YR00817
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Islington, 15 June 2015
6 m awayRef 201501EO40409
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2020010248852 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 2020.