Serious unclassified road crash in Hackney E5 on 11 March 2017 at 16:16 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hackney at 16:16 on Saturday 11 March 2017. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 16:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55659, longitude -0.06125, 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
- 2017010024546
- 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
- 20 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
- 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, 112 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 14 September 1985
112 m awayRef 198501GH00483
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 24 February 1989
117 m awayRef 198901GN00117
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 20 November 2020
117 m awayRef 2020010280271
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Hackney, 1 September 2025
118 m awayRef 2025010596187
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 12 August 1993
120 m awayRef 199301GN00424
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 23 March 1997
120 m awayRef 199701GN00149
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2017010024546 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.