Serious C road crash in Hackney E5 on 20 November 2020 at 06:35 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Hackney at 06:35 on Friday 20 November 2020. The 33-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Nov 2020
- Friday, 06:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55554, longitude -0.06143, 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
- 2020010280271
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 1993.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 12 August 1993
3 m awayRef 199301GN00424
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Hackney, 1 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010596187
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 14 September 1985
13 m awayRef 198501GH00483
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hackney, 23 March 1997
19 m awayRef 199701GN00149
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on a C road in Hackney, 18 October 2000
21 m awayRef 200001GN00532
Fatal
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Hackney, 19 May 1998
38 m awayRef 199801GN00266
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Cycleway or shared use footway (not part of main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 33, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2020010280271 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 2020.