Serious C road crash in Islington N1 on 9 December 2025 at 13:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Islington at 13:30 on Tuesday 9 December 2025. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53388, longitude -0.11156, in the N1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Islington. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter's & Canalside, Islington, N1 8BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Islington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010614714
- Council area
- Islington
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Islington, 19 May 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010248215
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on a C road in Islington, 1 December 2005
6 m awayRef 200501TA00299
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Islington, 2 November 1995
6 m awayRef 199501NI00604
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on a C road in Islington, 22 June 2004
6 m awayRef 200401EO00934
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Islington, 3 March 1999
6 m awayRef 199901NI00132
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Islington, 31 August 2011
6 m awayRef 201101EO40476
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025010614714 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 2025.