A104 crash in Hackney on 29 March 1997 at 20:19 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A104 in Hackney at 20:19 on Saturday 29 March 1997. The 27-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series 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
- 29 Mar 1997
- Saturday, 20:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54829, longitude -0.06509, 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
- 199701GD00148
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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 16 December 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A104 in Hackney, 16 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200101GD09002
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A104 in Hackney, 9 March 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010095162
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 8 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010GN0450
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A104 in Hackney, 9 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200401GD00577
Slight
Honda NSC110E crash on the A104 in Hackney, 27 September 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010270881
Slight
Volvo crash on the A104 in Hackney, 27 March 2023
6 m awayRef 2023010434501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,990 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 199701GD00148 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 1997.