Serious C road crash in Hackney E5 on 29 December 2016 at 16:15 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Hackney at 16:15 on Thursday 29 December 2016. The 27-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55547, longitude -0.06203, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010011204
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 6 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198401GN00436
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Hackney, 22 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010616847
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on a C road in Hackney, 18 October 2000
20 m awayRef 200001GN00532
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 14 September 1985
32 m awayRef 198501GH00483
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Hackney, 1 September 2025
35 m awayRef 2025010596187
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 12 August 1993
40 m awayRef 199301GN00424
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016010011204 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 2016.