B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 26 February 2001 at 20:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 20:15 on Monday 26 February 2001. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2001
- Monday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52754, longitude -0.0537, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green West, Tower Hamlets, E2 0BA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT00227
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 27 January 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 27 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HB00017
Slight
Car crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 25 February 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010496462
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 10 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HB00033
Serious
Van crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 9 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198601HB00096
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 3 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200801HT74753
Slight
Lorry crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 14 June 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HB0158
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200101HT00227 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 2001.