A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 December 2008 at 09:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 09:00 on Friday 5 December 2008. A 28-year-old male 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
- 5 Dec 2008
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51598, longitude -0.02911, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801HT76628
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1205
- 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 2006.
Serious
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 2 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200601TC00253
Slight
Bus crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 10 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HH00397
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 4 February 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT20056
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 7 March 2020
16 m awayRef 2020010240618
Slight
Van crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 24 November 1997
22 m awayRef 199701HH00453
Slight
Bus crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 28 January 1986
22 m awayRef 198601HH00068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200801HT76628 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.