A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 27 December 2007 at 19:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 19:40 on Thursday 27 December 2007. A 14-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
- 27 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49893, longitude -0.02595, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets, E14 9XF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701HT68613
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 10 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HH00384
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 16 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010392977
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 26 June 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010451640
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 4 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010584648
Fatal
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 21 January 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT00081
Serious
Lexus LS400 crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 12 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HH00230
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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, 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 200701HT68613 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.