A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 December 2003 at 22:31 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 22:31 on Sunday 21 December 2003. A 30-year-old male 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 22:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51681, longitude -0.07332, 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
- 200301HT09002
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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 17 September 2014.
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Volkswagen Passat crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 17 September 2014
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Honda Concerto crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 4 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00781
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Car crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 2 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HD0260
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 1 July 2022
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Scooter crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 6 July 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HD00212
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Ford Transit Custom crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 19 August 2021
10 m awayRef 2021010325390
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200301HT09002 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 2003.