A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 16 October 1996 at 07:50 involving a Carbodies Taxi
A Carbodies Taxi hit a pedestrian on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 07:50 on Wednesday 16 October 1996. A 31-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
- 16 Oct 1996
- Wednesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Carbodies Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51166, longitude -0.06895, 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
- 199601HT00538
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- 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 slight injury crash on 22 November 2018.
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Bicycle crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 22 November 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010147490
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Ford Fusion crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 2016
10 m awayRef 201601HT20537
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Car crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 27 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200501HT20750
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Car crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198401HD00290
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Nissan Micra crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 30 May 2022
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Motorcycle crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 5 November 2021
12 m awayRef 2021010343312
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Carbodies Taxi
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Carbodies Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199601HT00538 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.