C road crash in Hackney E5 on 23 March 1997 at 23:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Hackney at 23:00 on Sunday 23 March 1997. A 14-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 23 Mar 1997
- Sunday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55551, longitude -0.06118, 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
- 199701GN00149
- 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, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 November 2020.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 20 November 2020
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 12 August 1993
20 m awayRef 199301GN00424
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Hackney, 1 September 2025
25 m awayRef 2025010596187
Fatal
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Hackney, 19 May 1998
30 m awayRef 199801GN00266
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 14 September 1985
32 m awayRef 198501GH00483
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Hackney, 29 July 2022
32 m awayRef 2022010393459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199701GN00149 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.