Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 16 December 2009 at 20:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 20:00 on Wednesday 16 December 2009. A 26-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2009
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5264, longitude -0.02866, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT29029
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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 light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 1995.
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00494
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 16 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HH00231
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00757
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 8 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20846
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 17 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20328
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 22 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20255
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200901HT29029 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.