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A107 crash in Hackney on 8 December 2003 at 21:00 involving a taxi

Two taxis were involved in a crash on the A107 in Hackney at 21:00 on Monday 8 December 2003. The 54-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
8 Dec 2003
Monday, 21:00
Vehicles
2
Taxi and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5587, longitude -0.05612, in the E5 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.

Map of where the crash happened in Hackney

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200301GD09105
Council area
Hackney
Police force
Metropolitan Police
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
107
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
107

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

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 13 December 2008.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    54 years

  • Vehicle 2: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 54, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)

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 200301GD09105 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 2003.