B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 December 1999 at 12:50 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 12:50 on Friday 10 December 1999. A 16-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
- 10 Dec 1999
- Friday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52822, longitude -0.07284, 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
- 199901HT02172
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- 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 serious injury crash on 19 June 2018.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 19 June 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010115361
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 16 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010HB0173
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 20 September 2023
14 m awayRef 2023010467233
Slight
Van crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 28 February 1985
14 m awayRef 198501HB00038
Serious
Peugeot RCZ crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 2 December 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010613071
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 5 July 2012
20 m awayRef 201201HT20459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda)
- 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 199901HT02172 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.