Unclassified road crash in Hackney E5 on 1 January 2002 at 07:38 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Ford Transit were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hackney at 07:38 on Tuesday 1 January 2002. The 49-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2002
- Tuesday, 07:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56641, longitude -0.05507, in the E5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lea Bridge, Hackney, E5 9RY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201GD00004
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2013.
Slight
Honda WW125EX2 crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 11 November 2013
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 10 December 1990
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Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 22 January 2019
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Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 12 May 2021
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Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 2 May 2002
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Slight
Toyota Previa crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 8 March 2016
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200201GD00004 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 2002.