Serious A107 crash in Hackney on 25 March 2017 at 17:15 involving a Smart Forfour
A motorcycle and a Smart Forfour were involved in a crash on the A107 in Hackney at 17:15 on Saturday 25 March 2017. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 25 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Smart Forfour
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57469, longitude -0.07896, in the N16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seven Sisters, Haringey, N15 6PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010028039
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 107
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1983.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A107 in Hackney, 16 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010GN0021
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A107 in Hackney, 29 April 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010304500
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A107 in Hackney, 21 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199301GN00131
Slight
Car crash on the A107 in Hackney, 22 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198501GN00328
Slight
Citroen 2CV crash on the A107 in Hackney, 27 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199601GN00448
Slight
Bus crash on the A107 in Hackney, 11 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198401GN00173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Smart Forfour
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (50cc 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 2017010028039 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.