A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 May 2017 at 22:15 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila hit a pedestrian on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 22:15 on Wednesday 24 May 2017. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 2017
- Wednesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51185, longitude -0.06949, 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
- 2017010039546
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 February 2012.
Serious
Hyundai Coupe crash on the B139 in Tower Hamlets, 17 February 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TA00125
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HT00385
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00611
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B139 in Tower Hamlets, 10 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20479
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 24 May 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010309187
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B139 in Tower Hamlets, 18 December 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT21202
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Agila)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 2017010039546 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.