Serious A5 crash in Barnet on 2 February 2022 at 11:38 involving a Lexus RX 400
A Lexus RX 400 and an electric motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5 in Barnet at 11:38 on Wednesday 2 February 2022. The 34-year-old female rider of the electric motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 2022
- Wednesday, 11:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus RX 400 and electric motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59179, longitude -0.25736, in the NW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsbury, Brent, NW9 0UL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010358148
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 1993.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A5 in Barnet, 27 May 1993
9 m awayRef 199301SV00305
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 5 January 1990
10 m awayRef 199001SV00007
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 4 February 1989
16 m awayRef 198901SV00082
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A5 in Barnet, 25 May 2011
16 m awayRef 201101QK50254
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Barnet, 7 February 1989
16 m awayRef 198901QD00064
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Barnet, 13 February 1982
16 m awayRef 1982010SW0063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus RX 400
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,311 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Electric motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 34, e-scooter or powered transporter user, on vehicle 2 (Electric motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2022010358148 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2022.