A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 13 December 2008 at 03:00 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 03:00 on Saturday 13 December 2008. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51733, longitude -0.06682, 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
- 200801HT76571
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual 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
- A
- Second road number
- 11
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 3 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HD00238
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 May 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20582
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 23 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HD00399
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 21 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HB0141
Slight
Taxi crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 22 February 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20110
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 29 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00065
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 200801HT76571 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.