Serious A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 11 May 2016 at 18:40 involving a Chrysler Voyager
A Chrysler Voyager hit a pedestrian on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 18:40 on Wednesday 11 May 2016. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 May 2016
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chrysler Voyager
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52522, longitude -0.07081, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weavers, Tower Hamlets, E2 7LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20472
- 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
- 20 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2005.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 10 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20405
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 16 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00440
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 10 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20807
Slight
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 23 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198601HB00080
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200801HT75032
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 21 May 2008
10 m awayRef 200801HT72593
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chrysler Voyager
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,776 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Chrysler Voyager)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 201601HT20472 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 2016.