Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 31 December 1999 at 23:54 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 23:54 on Friday 31 December 1999. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1999
- Friday, 23:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5233, longitude -0.01524, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901HT02219
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 140
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2019.
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Slight
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Serious
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199901HT02219 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.