Unclassified road crash in Hackney E8 on 23 December 1998 at 14:25 involving a Vauxhall Astravan
A Vauxhall Astravan and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hackney at 14:25 on Wednesday 23 December 1998. The 29-year-old female driver of the car and the 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astravan were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1998
- Wednesday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astravan and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54406, longitude -0.05965, 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
- 199801GD00630
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astravan
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
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 199801GD00630 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 1998.