C road crash in Tower Hamlets E1 on 3 August 2016 at 13:29 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 13:29 on Wednesday 3 August 2016. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2016
- Wednesday, 13:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51771, longitude -0.05743, 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
- 201601HT20818
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 June 2002.
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 10 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00762
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 17 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00993
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 28 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20132
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 12 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010603828
Slight
Yamaha X crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 20 September 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010467416
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 6 May 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010509185
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 201601HT20818 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.