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Serious B108 crash in Hackney on 29 October 1996 at 17:52 involving a Carbodies Taxi

A Carbodies Taxi hit a pedestrian on the B108 in Hackney at 17:52 on Tuesday 29 October 1996. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Oct 1996
Tuesday, 17:52
Vehicles
1
Carbodies Taxi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53794, longitude -0.07044, in the E8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney.

Map of where the crash happened in Hackney

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199601GD00534
Council area
Hackney
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
108
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
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    53 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Carbodies Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199601GD00534 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 1996.