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Serious A10 crash in Hackney on 7 April 1998 at 19:19 involving a BMW 5 Series

A BMW 5 Series hit a pedestrian on the A10 in Hackney at 19:19 on Tuesday 7 April 1998. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Apr 1998
Tuesday, 19:19
Vehicles
1
BMW 5 Series
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52189, longitude -0.07832, in the E1 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Hackney

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199801HT00207
Council area
Hackney
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
10
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1999.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years
    Engine capacity
    1,990 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    15 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199801HT00207 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.