B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 17 June 2008 at 21:39 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 21:39 on Tuesday 17 June 2008. A 35-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 2008
- Tuesday, 21:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52913, longitude -0.04656, 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 East, Tower Hamlets, E2 0FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801HT73426
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2011.
Slight
Dennis crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 5 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20853
Serious
Bus crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 6 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HB00292
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 23 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20176
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 31 August 2020
10 m awayRef 2020010264931
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 4 February 2008
10 m awayRef 200801HT69641
Slight
Car crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 1 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200901HT20207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 200801HT73426 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.