A104 crash in Hackney on 26 February 2017 at 22:30 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A104 in Hackney at 22:30 on Sunday 26 February 2017. A 46-year-old male passenger in the Citroen C4 and a 41-year-old male passenger in the Citroen C4 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2017
- Sunday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C4 and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54964, longitude -0.05953, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010021259
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 23 December 2012
At the same spotRef 201201GD10823
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A104 in Hackney, 18 June 2006
At the same spotRef 200601GD10349
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 8 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801GN00012
Slight
Dennis crash on the A104 in Hackney, 9 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901GN00307
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 27 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201301GD10327
Slight
Lexmoto Aura crash on the A104 in Hackney, 26 April 2024
3 m awayRef 2024010507534
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010021259 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 2017.