A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 November 2002 at 10:25 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 10:25 on Thursday 7 November 2002. A 37-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2002
- Thursday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51753, longitude -0.07387, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spitalfields & Banglatown, Tower Hamlets, E1 6RT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201HT00877
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 19 June 2006.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 19 June 2006
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Slight
Honda ANC125E crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 22 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010049984
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 29 May 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010111200
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00571
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 8 November 2025
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Slight
Renault Trucks crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 2 April 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010172726
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 200201HT00877 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.