A5201 crash in Hackney on 26 May 2014 at 21:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A5201 in Hackney at 21:10 on Monday 26 May 2014. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2014
- Monday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52618, longitude -0.08547, in the EC1V postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hackney, EC2A 2BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401GD10452
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5201
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 28 June 2002.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A5201 in Hackney, 28 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201GD00569
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A5201 in Hackney, 25 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200801GD75162
Slight
Honda NT700V crash on the A5201 in Hackney, 18 November 2013
At the same spotRef 201301GD10802
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A5201 in Hackney, 16 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200001GD00352
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A5201 in Hackney, 21 February 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010097386
Slight
Suzuki GSX 750 crash on the A5201 in Hackney, 23 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200401GD10034
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201401GD10452 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 2014.