Serious unclassified road crash in Hackney E5 on 10 May 2025 at 17:55 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hackney at 17:55 on Saturday 10 May 2025. The 19-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 May 2025
- Saturday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55531, longitude -0.0523, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010574195
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1990.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 24 August 1990
15 m awayRef 199001GH00496
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 20 January 1986
15 m awayRef 198601GH00040
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 13 May 1986
16 m awayRef 198601GH00246
Slight
Renault 20 crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 30 August 1995
17 m awayRef 199501GD00395
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 16 April 2021
23 m awayRef 2021010302058
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Hackney, 4 July 1984
27 m awayRef 198401GH00315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 19, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010574195 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 2025.