A105 crash in Hackney on 4 July 2023 at 00:03 involving an Audi A3
A motorcycle and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A105 in Hackney at 00:03 on Tuesday 4 July 2023. The 40-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2023
- Tuesday, 00:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57017, longitude -0.09549, in the N4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brownswood, Hackney, N4 2HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hackney
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010453068
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 105
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2021.
Slight
Vmoto Cpa crash on the A105 in Hackney, 20 June 2021
1 m awayRef 2021010314834
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A105 in Hackney, 8 May 2021
2 m awayRef 2021010306192
Serious
Car crash on the A105 in Hackney, 4 October 1986
8 m awayRef 198601GN00492
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A105 in Hackney, 17 March 1998
8 m awayRef 199801GN00127
Slight
BYD Ebus crash on the A105 in Hackney, 17 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010616024
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A105 in Hackney, 13 February 2010
9 m awayRef 201001GD10086
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 40 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023010453068 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 2023.