Unclassified road crash in Hackney E5 on 12 July 1990 at 17:30 involving a Datsun Laurel
A Datsun Laurel hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hackney at 17:30 on Thursday 12 July 1990. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 1990
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Datsun Laurel
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55112, longitude -0.06252, in the E5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199001GN00432
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Datsun Laurel
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,393 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Datsun Laurel)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 199001GN00432 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hackney road accident statistics for 1990.