A107 crash in Hackney on 18 August 2005 at 04:10 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A107 in Hackney at 04:10 on Thursday 18 August 2005. The 40-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle 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
- 18 Aug 2005
- Thursday, 04:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5407, longitude -0.0553, in the E8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the London Fields, Hackney, E8 3HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501GD10709
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2001.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A107 in Hackney, 30 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200101GD00530
Slight
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A107 in Hackney, 15 March 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010096441
Slight
Car crash on the A107 in Hackney, 3 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198501GH00520
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A107 in Hackney, 3 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010616934
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A107 in Hackney, 10 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200001GD00294
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A107 in Hackney, 11 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901GD00504
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 200501GD10709 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.