A107 crash in Tower Hamlets on 2 August 2007 at 03:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A107 in Tower Hamlets at 03:05 on Thursday 2 August 2007. A 21-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2007
- Thursday, 03:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52514, longitude -0.0551, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green West, Tower Hamlets, E2 0BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701HT66635
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 107
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 21 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20074
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 3 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00168
Slight
Honda NC750 crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 24 July 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010456960
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 6 July 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT20636
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 31 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010619188
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 12 December 2007
20 m awayRef 200701HT68902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200701HT66635 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 2007.