A104 crash in Hackney on 14 December 2018 at 00:50 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A104 in Hackney at 00:50 on Friday 14 December 2018. The 43-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class and a male passenger in the Mercedes E Class were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2018
- Friday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54946, longitude -0.05983, 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
- 2018010156241
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- 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)
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 107
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 1990.
Slight
Bus crash on the A104 in Hackney, 5 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199001GH00257
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A104 in Hackney, 12 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199501GD00167
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 27 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198401GN00194
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A107 in Hackney, 9 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201501GD10096
Slight
Leyland crash on the A104 in Hackney, 4 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901GD00569
Slight
Bus crash on the A104 in Hackney, 14 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901GD00567
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
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 2018010156241 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 2018.