B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 2 May 2001 at 08:06 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 08:06 on Wednesday 2 May 2001. A 9-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2001
- Wednesday, 08:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52888, longitude -0.04758, 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 East, Tower Hamlets, E2 0FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT00562
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 31 August 2004.
Serious
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Slight
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At the same spotRef 201501HT20255
Slight
Pioneer XF 125 crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 22 February 2012
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Honda Civic crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 9 April 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010031910
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Honda crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 25 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00853
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 23 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00151
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 200101HT00562 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.