A104 crash in Hackney on 18 December 2008 at 19:12 involving a Toyota
A Toyota and a Volkswagen Caddy were involved in a crash on the A104 in Hackney at 19:12 on Thursday 18 December 2008. The 30-year-old male driver of the Toyota 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 Dec 2008
- Thursday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota and Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54713, longitude -0.06916, 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
- 200801GD76387
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 1 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010GN0006
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A104 in Hackney, 10 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010GN0521
Slight
Fiat Croma crash on the A104 in Hackney, 8 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701GN00104
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 9 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010GN0565
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A104 in Hackney, 3 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801GN00632
Serious
Lorry crash on the A104 in Hackney, 23 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010GN0484
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Caddy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
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 200801GD76387 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.