B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 December 2003 at 18:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 18:30 on Tuesday 23 December 2003. A 61-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52227, longitude -0.01817, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301HT09010
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 140
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 April 2011.
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 13 April 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TA00976
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 30 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HH00359
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 10 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20406
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 5 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00165
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 15 October 2010
At the same spotRef 201001TB00752
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 31 January 2020
3 m awayRef 2020010234814
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200301HT09010 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.