B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 July 2014 at 19:45 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper hit a pedestrian on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 19:45 on Monday 21 July 2014. A 7-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 21 Jul 2014
- Monday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53103, longitude -0.0472, 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 East, Tower Hamlets, E2 0FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT20618
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 July 2021.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 20 July 2021
2 m awayRef 2021010320575
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 13 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200001HT01208
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 13 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HB00140
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 17 October 1985
14 m awayRef 198501HB00250
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 26 March 2007
20 m awayRef 200701HT20237
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 18 December 2017
22 m awayRef 2017010078729
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201401HT20618 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.