Unclassified road crash in Hackney E5 on 20 August 2015 at 23:03 involving a Citroen C3
A motorcycle and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hackney at 23:03 on Thursday 20 August 2015. A 23-year-old female passenger on the 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
- 20 Aug 2015
- Thursday, 23:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55772, longitude -0.06441, in the E5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hackney Downs, Hackney, E5 8LF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501GD10667
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 19 February 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010GN0072
Slight
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10 m awayRef 2025010583941
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 5 October 2008
14 m awayRef 200801GD75490
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 15 November 2001
20 m awayRef 200101GD01209
Slight
Bedford 99 crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 20 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199901GN00541
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 3 May 2011
22 m awayRef 201101GD10257
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,584 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201501GD10667 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 2015.