2012-02-10 09:25 - Rider Down, Gordon Square, Bloomsbury

Yes, good idea. I will follow up with trhe same question for more recent figures (2010 or 11 if they have them) PLUS query about more minor accident figures.

I think I asked for all accidents originally, but they only recorded the more major ones...

DId you ask for 'crashes with ambulance attendance originally'? That may mean why the person at the other end would have concluded, quite sensibly, that you weren't interested in slight injury crashes, as most of those don't tend to attract ambulances. Slight casualties are certainly recorded (as they explain), but there is a high level of under-reporting, i.e. people fall off their bikes or are slightly hit by another vehicle, details are exchanged (if not, that probably results in a report to police more often), and then they go to A&E under their own steam without getting their entry into the database.

Peke (no idea what hackney-kid-slang means - but it seems to mean "that is a bit rubbish")

Do you pronounce that as 'peaky'? Is this it?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peaky

Neither of these seem to be Hackney slang:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/peke

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peke