A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 31 December 2014 at 00:45 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga hit a pedestrian on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 00:45 on Wednesday 31 December 2014. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52392, longitude -0.07374, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hackney, EC2A 2BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT21206
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1209
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 22 November 2002.
Fatal
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 22 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00928
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 5 July 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20619
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 18 April 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010175779
Slight
Honda FSH125 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 9 October 2024
7 m awayRef 2024010536853
Slight
Yamaha YZF crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 25 November 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010480058
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 24 July 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT20676
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Kuga)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201401HT21206 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.