A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 August 1997 at 18:48 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro hit a pedestrian on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 18:48 on Friday 22 August 1997. A 17-year-old female 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
- 22 Aug 1997
- Friday, 18:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52737, longitude -0.05661, 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
- 199701HT00473
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1209
- 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
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 29 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HT00671
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 3 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00029
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 4 November 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010143304
Slight
Bus crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 17 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HB00040
Fatal
Volvo crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 29 October 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TD00142
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 14 November 2024
7 m awayRef 2024010543570
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
- 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 199701HT00473 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 1997.