C road crash in Hackney E8 on 21 December 2002 at 17:12 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird and a Toyota Carina were involved in a crash on a C road in Hackney at 17:12 on Saturday 21 December 2002. A 3-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Bluebird, a 2-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Bluebird and a 4-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Bluebird were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2002
- Saturday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Bluebird and Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55108, longitude -0.06856, in the E8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hackney Downs, Hackney, E5 8LF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201GD01166
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 12 June 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Hackney, 12 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200001GN00306
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on a C road in Hackney, 9 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201GD01128
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Hackney, 22 January 2007
At the same spotRef 200701GD10037
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Hackney, 12 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801GD00506
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Hackney, 13 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200001GN00576
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Hackney, 22 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901GN00400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200201GD01166 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.