B126 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 December 1999 at 13:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B126 in Tower Hamlets at 13:20 on Wednesday 22 December 1999. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1999
- Wednesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51105, longitude -0.05699, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901HT02216
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 126
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2010.
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BMW 1 Series crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20130
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Renault Trafic crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT74999
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 22 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20223
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Car crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 9 July 2025
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Kawasaki crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 12 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HT00474
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Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200401HT00169
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
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199901HT02216 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.