B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 May 1995 at 17:45 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 17:45 on Wednesday 24 May 1995. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 1995
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52834, longitude -0.07142, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501HT00162
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 118
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2019.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010198121
Slight
Van crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 8 February 2006
10 m awayRef 200601HT20055
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 31 October 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010067446
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 27 July 2012
10 m awayRef 201201HT20539
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 8 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HB00213
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 2 May 1990
10 m awayRef 199001HB00089
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199501HT00162 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tower Hamlets road accident statistics for 1995.