B134 crash in Tower Hamlets on 27 October 1995 at 16:05 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on the B134 in Tower Hamlets at 16:05 on Friday 27 October 1995. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 1995
- Friday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51971, longitude -0.07193, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501HT00455
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 13 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HB00185
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 8 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00004
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00226
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 12 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT20323
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 28 December 2021
2 m awayRef 2021010354219
Slight
Car crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HB00203
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199501HT00455 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.