Serious A10 crash in Hackney on 23 August 2019 at 04:20 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series, a Volkswagen Scirocco and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A10 in Hackney at 04:20 on Friday 23 August 2019. A 25-year-old male pedestrian hit by the BMW 5 Series was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male pedestrian hit by the BMW 5 Series and a 19-year-old male pedestrian hit by the BMW 5 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 2019
- Friday, 04:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 5 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53568, longitude -0.07698, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hackney, N1 6RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010201040
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 10
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A10 in Hackney, 18 April 2010
4 m awayRef 201001GD10232
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A10 in Hackney, 28 December 1995
4 m awayRef 199501GD00564
Slight
Car crash on the A10 in Hackney, 5 January 1996
4 m awayRef 199601GD00004
Slight
Car crash on the A10 in Hackney, 14 January 1985
4 m awayRef 198501GH00021
Slight
Ducati crash on the A10 in Hackney, 30 September 2002
4 m awayRef 200201GD00881
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A10 in Hackney, 20 November 2004
4 m awayRef 200401GD10076
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 3: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019010201040 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 2019.