A5200 crash in Camden on 30 January 2025 at 20:25 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A bicycle and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A5200 in Camden at 20:25 on Thursday 30 January 2025. The 34-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Thursday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52872, longitude -0.1196, in the WC1X 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Camden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010556901
- Council area
- Camden
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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 13 September 2024.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A5200 in Camden, 13 September 2024
At the same spotRef 2024010537207
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5200 in Camden, 15 April 2023
1 m awayRef 2023010437762
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A5200 in Camden, 20 April 2019
1 m awayRef 2019010176169
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A5200 in Camden, 6 April 1992
5 m awayRef 199201EO00126
Slight
Car crash on the A501 in Camden, 6 February 1994
5 m awayRef 199401EO00038
Serious
Volvo crash on the A5200 in Camden, 4 November 1992
5 m awayRef 199201EO00422
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 34, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025010556901 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 2025.