Serious B108 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 December 2013 at 20:45 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van hit a pedestrian on the B108 in Tower Hamlets at 20:45 on Thursday 12 December 2013. A male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52106, longitude -0.06421, in the E1 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301HT21044
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 108
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 slight injury crash on 26 January 2004.
Slight
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 26 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00073
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 3 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20174
Serious
Daihatsu Charmant crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 2 April 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HB00064
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00795
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20099
Slight
Citroen Nemo crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 14 October 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- 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 201301HT21044 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 2013.