C road crash in Hackney E8 on 26 December 1996 at 00:57 involving a Colt Mitsubishi
A Colt Mitsubishi and a Nissan 200 were involved in a crash on a C road in Hackney at 00:57 on Thursday 26 December 1996. The 32-year-old female driver of the Colt Mitsubishi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 00:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Colt Mitsubishi and Nissan 200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54967, longitude -0.06186, in the E8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601GN00644
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 25 January 2017.
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Colt Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,468 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan 200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,809 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Colt Mitsubishi)
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 199601GN00644 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.