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Serious B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 16 April 1999 at 08:55 involving a Honda CB350S motorcycle

A Honda CB350S motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 08:55 on Friday 16 April 1999. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Apr 1999
Friday, 08:55
Vehicles
1
Honda CB350S
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52349, longitude -0.06972, 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
199901HT00374
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police
Police attended the scene
Yes

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
Crossroads
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda CB350S

    Motorcycle over 125cc

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years
    Engine capacity
    348 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    11 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda CB350S)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 199901HT00374 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 1999.