B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 February 2012 at 15:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 15:45 on Thursday 23 February 2012. A 30-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
- 23 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52364, longitude -0.06799, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spitalfields & Banglatown, Tower Hamlets, E1 6RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20118
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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
- 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 28 March 2004.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 28 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00220
Slight
Daimler Sovereign crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 17 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HB00268
Serious
Toyota C-HR crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 18 February 2025
25 m awayRef 2025010560788
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 20 September 2000
32 m awayRef 200001HT00864
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 3 May 1999
32 m awayRef 199901HT00907
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 1998
32 m awayRef 199801HT00549
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201201HT20118 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 2012.