Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E14 on 19 December 2010 at 13:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 13:15 on Sunday 19 December 2010. A 74-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2010
- Sunday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51404, longitude -0.02588, 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
- 201001HT20941
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 29 November 1987
28 m awayRef 198701HH00545
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 17 June 1990
36 m awayRef 199001HH00271
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 1 December 2009
50 m awayRef 200901HT20768
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 11 October 2007
58 m awayRef 200701HT67425
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 18 January 1986
81 m awayRef 198601HH00030
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 29 June 2025
84 m awayRef 2025010583552
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 74, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 201001HT20941 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 2010.