Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E14 on 23 January 2017 at 20:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 20:20 on Monday 23 January 2017. A 23-year-old female 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
- 23 Jan 2017
- Monday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49619, longitude -0.02564, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets, E14 9XF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010017373
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1206
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 December 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 17 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401HH00537
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 2025
12 m awayRef 2025010562186
Slight
MG 5 crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 11 September 2025
13 m awayRef 2025010596988
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 24 May 2007
14 m awayRef 200701HT20345
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 28 March 2009
14 m awayRef 200901HT20128
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 15 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200301HT00893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2017010017373 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 2017.