B142 crash in Tower Hamlets on 1 August 2012 at 13:00 involving a Toyota Yaris
A car and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets at 13:00 on Wednesday 1 August 2012. A 37-year-old female pedestrian hit by the car 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
- 1 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52942, longitude -0.02074, 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 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20542
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 142
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1988.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 13 January 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HH00019
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 20 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200601HT20590
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 9 February 2011
14 m awayRef 201101HT20070
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 9 May 2022
18 m awayRef 2022010375462
Slight
Van crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 1986
20 m awayRef 198601HH00423
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 17 February 1991
22 m awayRef 199101HH00056
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201201HT20542 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.