Serious A107 crash in Hackney on 21 March 2016 at 17:15 involving a BMW X5
A motorcycle and a BMW X5 were involved in a crash on the A107 in Hackney at 17:15 on Monday 21 March 2016. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Mar 2016
- Monday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and BMW X5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54627, longitude -0.0552, in the E8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Homerton, Hackney, E9 6EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601GD10215
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 107
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1207
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A107 in Hackney, 4 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601GD00249
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A107 in Hackney, 24 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601GD00294
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A107 in Hackney, 23 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200001GD00600
Slight
Bus crash on the A107 in Hackney, 13 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901GH00022
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A107 in Hackney, 21 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601GD00391
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A107 in Hackney, 3 March 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010561908
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201601GD10215 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.