A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 May 2008 at 20:37 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 20:37 on Sunday 4 May 2008. A 26-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2008
- Sunday, 20:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52692, longitude -0.05963, 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
- 200801HT72561
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1209
- 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
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1998.
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 7 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00483
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 18 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00268
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 22 August 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010128532
Slight
Honda crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00817
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 19 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010049363
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 7 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 200801HT72561 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 2008.