B120 crash in Tower Hamlets on 8 May 1996 at 14:55 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the B120 in Tower Hamlets at 14:55 on Wednesday 8 May 1996. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 1996
- Wednesday, 14:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.523, longitude -0.04743, 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
- 199601HT00216
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 March 2012.
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 1 March 2012
10 m awayRef 201201TA00264
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 2 September 2014
14 m awayRef 201401HT20761
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 4 December 1993
14 m awayRef 199301HB00279
Slight
Taxi crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 4 July 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010046447
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 2 May 2025
15 m awayRef 2025010572779
Serious
Van crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 13 December 1999
22 m awayRef 199901HT02190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,764 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 199601HT00216 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 1996.