C road crash in Hackney E8 on 1 March 1997 at 13:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Hackney at 13:30 on Saturday 1 March 1997. The 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1997
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55163, longitude -0.06596, 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
- 199701GN00086
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 16 June 1999.
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on a C road in Hackney, 16 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901GN00325
Serious
Honda crash on a C road in Hackney, 19 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199401GN00453
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Hackney, 27 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199501GN00083
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Hackney, 28 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301GN00562
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Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Hackney, 23 September 1990
10 m awayRef 199001GN00562
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199701GN00086 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.