B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 November 1998 at 09:48 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 09:48 on Saturday 7 November 1998. A 33-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
- 7 Nov 1998
- Saturday, 09:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52347, longitude -0.07062, 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
- 199801HT00623
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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 20 August 1989.
Slight
Van crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 20 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HB00193
Slight
Car crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 3 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HB0210
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 5 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200901HT20228
Slight
Car crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 7 March 1999
14 m awayRef 199901HT00239
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 22 February 2004
20 m awayRef 200401HT00161
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 31 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200001HT09018
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 199801HT00623 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.