Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E1 on 4 March 2004 at 14:50 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 14:50 on Thursday 4 March 2004. A 72-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2004
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51096, longitude -0.057, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401HT00169
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 126
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2010.
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BMW 1 Series crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201001HT20130
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 22 March 2005
10 m awayRef 200501HT20223
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Car crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 22 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT02216
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Renault Trafic crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200801HT74999
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Car crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 12 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HD00233
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Car crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 9 July 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
- 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 200401HT00169 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 2004.