Serious A10 crash in Hackney on 25 August 1997 at 00:14 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A10 in Hackney at 00:14 on Monday 25 August 1997. The 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 1997
- Monday, 00:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55752, longitude -0.06889, in the N16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701GN00426
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 10
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- C
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 4 April 2017.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A10 in Hackney, 4 April 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010030185
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A10 in Hackney, 25 April 2007
10 m awayRef 200701GD10244
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A10 in Hackney, 11 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200301GD00181
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A10 in Hackney, 30 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200901GD10631
Slight
Toyota Prius+ crash on the A10 in Hackney, 1 March 2013
10 m awayRef 201301GD10151
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A10 in Hackney, 13 November 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010609228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199701GN00426 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.