A1207 crash in Hackney on 22 March 2002 at 22:56 involving a Citroen ZX
A Citroen ZX and a Ford Transit were involved in a crash on the A1207 in Hackney at 22:56 on Friday 22 March 2002. The 65-year-old male driver of the Citroen ZX 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
- 22 Mar 2002
- Friday, 22:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen ZX and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54655, longitude -0.05548, in the E8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Homerton, Hackney, E9 6EH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201GD00251
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1207
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 107
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 16 August 1989.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1207 in Hackney, 16 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901GH00454
Slight
Bus crash on the A1207 in Hackney, 31 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201501GD10258
Slight
Kawasaki ZG1000 crash on the A1207 in Hackney, 5 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601GD00315
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A1207 in Hackney, 29 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199101GH00237
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A107 in Hackney, 13 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010609293
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A1207 in Hackney, 14 November 2021
5 m awayRef 2021010343853
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen ZX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen ZX)
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 200201GD00251 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.