Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 October 2002 at 19:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 19:45 on Saturday 19 October 2002. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Oct 2002
- Saturday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52565, longitude -0.03186, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201HT00812
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 20 July 2010
At the same spotRef 201001TB00384
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 17 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HH00211
Slight
Van crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 6 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00116
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 26 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00419
Slight
Taxi crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 27 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401HH00449
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 6 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 200201HT00812 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 2002.