Unclassified road crash in Hackney E8 on 21 December 2011 at 19:45 involving a Volkswagen Eos
A Volkswagen Eos and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hackney at 19:45 on Wednesday 21 December 2011. The male driver of the Volkswagen Eos 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
- 21 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Eos and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54385, longitude -0.07189, 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
- 201101GD10800
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2010.
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10 m awayRef 201001GD10802
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Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 27 August 1991
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 8 October 1982
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Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 27 April 2010
32 m awayRef 201001JI40251
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Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 30 October 1983
40 m awayRef 1983010GN0557
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 30 January 2004
41 m awayRef 200401GD00060
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Eos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Eos)
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 201101GD10800 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 2011.