A1204 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 April 2001 at 23:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets at 23:45 on Wednesday 4 April 2001. A 32-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2001
- Wednesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50473, longitude -0.05568, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, E1W 3EJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT00401
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1204
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2005.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200501HT20764
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 20 May 2024
30 m awayRef 2024010512842
Slight
Car crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 29 November 2019
53 m awayRef 2019010221732
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 1 June 2025
63 m awayRef 2025010578097
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 4 April 2013
71 m awayRef 201301HT20220
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 29 August 2023
85 m awayRef 2023010463073
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 32, 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 200101HT00401 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.