A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 February 2009 at 16:30 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van hit a pedestrian on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 16:30 on Wednesday 4 February 2009. A 46-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 2009
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52685, longitude -0.06065, 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
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT20018
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1990.
Slight
Citroen Visa crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 15 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00046
Slight
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 28 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HB00181
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 29 November 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20945
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 8 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20220
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 9 August 2023
2 m awayRef 2023010459903
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 8 May 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010180978
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 46, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200901HT20018 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 2009.