A man has been left seriously injured after being struck by a car outside Stoke Newington Overground station during Thursday morning’s rush hour, sparking a major emergency response in north London.
The collision happened at 8.13am on October 1 on the A10 at Stamford Hill in Hackney, N16, directly outside the station entrance. Pictures from the scene showed a heavy police presence at the junction, with a silver car held inside a cordon and police tape stretched across the road in several directions.
The London Ambulance Service said it was called at 8.13am to reports of a road traffic collision on Stamford Hill. An ambulance crew and paramedics in fast-response cars were dispatched, with the first paramedic reaching the scene in less than a minute.
“We treated a patient at the scene and took him to a major trauma centre as a priority,” a spokesperson for the service said.
The fact the man was taken to a major trauma centre as a priority underlines the seriousness of his injuries. Major trauma centres are equipped to deal with the most severely injured patients, and priority conveyance is reserved for cases where specialist care is urgently needed. No further details about the man’s condition have been released.
The crash closed Stamford Hill in both directions between Northwold Road and Manor Road, landing squarely in the middle of the morning peak. Drivers faced severe delays, with traffic reported queuing back towards Stoke Newington High Street and past the Morrisons supermarket, while several bus routes were diverted away from the closed section of road.
Bus passengers were among the worst affected, with services that normally run along the A10 corridor sent on diversion and stops near the scene left unserved while the cordon was in place. Commuters heading for the Overground station found the junction outside it sealed off by police tape.
A police cordon remained in place across the junction for much of the morning while emergency services dealt with the scene. Officers guarded the closed-off stretch as the investigation into the collision got under way, and the shutdown sent knock-on congestion through surrounding residential streets that are ill-suited to absorbing heavy diverted traffic.
The junction has since reopened to traffic, with the A10 handed back in both directions and congestion starting to ease after hours of disruption. The closure lasted through the busiest part of the morning rush, and drivers were warned to expect some residual delays while the backlog of diverted vehicles cleared. London Streets followed the incident live throughout the morning as the picture developed.
The collision happened at one of north London’s busiest interchanges. Stoke Newington station, served by London Overground trains, sits directly on the A10 close to the junctions with Northwold Road and Manor Road. The road is a key arterial route funnelling traffic between the City, Hackney, Tottenham and Hertfordshire, and the stretch through Stamford Hill is typically nose-to-tail even on a normal weekday morning, so a full closure at 8am was always going to cause serious problems.
The 8.13am timing meant the crash happened at the very height of the morning rush, when both the roads around the station and the station itself are at their busiest, compounding the disruption for thousands of commuters.
The closure added to a difficult spell on the capital’s roads. A crash recently shut Tottenham High Road in both directions, leaving a man to be rushed to a major trauma centre, while roads around St Pancras were closed after a police incident that was later confirmed as a false alarm.
London Streets will continue to follow this story as more details emerge from the emergency services.
