A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 17 January 2014 at 07:03 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 07:03 on Friday 17 January 2014. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2014
- Friday, 07:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5145, longitude -0.05872, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT20017
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 21 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198501HD00037
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 1 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT21019
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 13 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20238
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 1 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20576
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 12 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20077
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 July 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HD00189
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201401HT20017 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 2014.