A104 crash in Hackney on 7 November 2008 at 16:40 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A104 in Hackney at 16:40 on Friday 7 November 2008. The 51-year-old female driver of the Nissan Almera 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
- 7 Nov 2008
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5474, longitude -0.06915, in the E8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mildmay, Islington, N1 4AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801GD76231
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1999.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A104 in Hackney, 17 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199901GN00484
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on the A104 in Hackney, 11 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199001GN00536
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A104 in Hackney, 6 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199701GN00193
Slight
Nissan Silvia crash on the A104 in Hackney, 7 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801GN00522
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 3 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200801GD75391
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A104 in Hackney, 25 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701GD68618
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Almera)
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 200801GD76231 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 2008.