A201 crash in the City of London on 24 October 2025 at 17:50 involving a bicycle
Two bicycles were involved in a crash on the A201 in the City of London at 17:50 on Friday 24 October 2025. The 44-year-old male 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
- 24 Oct 2025
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51612, longitude -0.10487, 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
- 2025481720721
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 201
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 February 2023.
Serious
Vmoto Cpa crash on the A201 in the City of London, 22 February 2023
At the same spotRef 2023481356305
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A201 in the City of London, 2 July 1982
5 m awayRef 198248P430482
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A201 in the City of London, 31 May 1991
5 m awayRef 199101CP00097
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A201 in the City of London, 16 December 1999
5 m awayRef 199901CP00474
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A201 in the City of London, 30 April 1999
5 m awayRef 199901CP00111
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in the City of London, 16 August 1983
5 m awayRef 198348P433183
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 44, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2025481720721 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 2025.