A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 November 1998 at 17:55 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion hit a pedestrian on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 17:55 on Saturday 28 November 1998. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 1998
- Saturday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50668, longitude -0.00778, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801HH00514
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 24 August 2001.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT01011
Slight
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At the same spotRef 200901HT20288
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 26 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00300
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 22 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HH00288
Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 199801HH00514 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 1998.