A107 crash in Hackney on 5 May 2005 at 22:00 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A107 in Hackney at 22:00 on Thursday 5 May 2005. The 30-year-old male driver of the Toyota Carina was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 2005
- Thursday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5596, longitude -0.05651, 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
- 200501GD10378
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A107 in Hackney, 28 November 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010003820
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A107 in Hackney, 3 January 2013
At the same spotRef 201301GD10049
Serious
Lorry crash on the A107 in Hackney, 15 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199601GN00140
Slight
Daimler Sovereign crash on the A107 in Hackney, 7 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199101GN00219
Slight
Piaggio Liberty crash on the A107 in Hackney, 18 December 2021
2 m awayRef 2021010351693
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A107 in Hackney, 9 March 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010364400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
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 200501GD10378 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 2005.