Serious A107 crash in Tower Hamlets on 3 April 1998 at 19:25 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane hit a pedestrian on the A107 in Tower Hamlets at 19:25 on Friday 3 April 1998. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Apr 1998
- Friday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52519, longitude -0.05512, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801HT00168
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 107
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 21 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20074
Slight
Car crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 2 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT66635
Slight
Honda NC750 crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 24 July 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010456960
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 6 July 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT20636
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 31 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010619188
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 12 December 2007
20 m awayRef 200701HT68902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199801HT00168 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.