C road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 25 July 2016 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 18:00 on Monday 25 July 2016. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 2016
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51947, longitude -0.01714, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20647
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2016.
Slight
Piaggio Fly crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 23 March 2016
10 m awayRef 201601HT20224
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Van crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 12 June 1988
14 m awayRef 198801HH00271
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 4 October 1988
14 m awayRef 198801HH00473
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Peugeot 207 crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 29 June 2014
20 m awayRef 201401HT20550
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Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 31 October 2022
28 m awayRef 2022010408064
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 22 March 2025
34 m awayRef 2025010565427
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201601HT20647 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.