A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 July 2016 at 02:04 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 02:04 on Sunday 10 July 2016. A 37-year-old 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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2016
- Sunday, 02:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51119, longitude -0.01145, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20677
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2012.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 21 December 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20967
Slight
Scania crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 22 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00197
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 30 September 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010012939
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0270
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 11 January 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010420953
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 28 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010612718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201601HT20677 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.