Serious B127 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 July 2012 at 19:08 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B127 in Tower Hamlets at 19:08 on Wednesday 4 July 2012. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 2012
- Wednesday, 19:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53262, longitude -0.05636, 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
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20463
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 127
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2020.
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the B127 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2020
1 m awayRef 2020010270408
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B127 in Tower Hamlets, 18 November 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010HB0274
Slight
Car crash on the B127 in Tower Hamlets, 2 November 2009
14 m awayRef 200901HT20700
Slight
Car crash on the B127 in Tower Hamlets, 7 December 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010HB0299
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B127 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 2024
18 m awayRef 2024010525665
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B127 in Tower Hamlets, 21 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198401HB00133
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201201HT20463 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.