A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 December 2014 at 00:30 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A Ford Galaxy taxi hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 00:30 on Sunday 21 December 2014. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5196, longitude -0.05749, 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
- 201401HT21212
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual 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 serious injury crash on 2 July 1982.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0205
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HD0065
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 14 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT75432
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HD00255
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 November 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010217681
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 4 April 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010568013
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 201401HT21212 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.