Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 26 May 2017 at 17:40 involving a Kymco Agility motorcycle
A Kymco Agility motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 17:40 on Friday 26 May 2017. A 34-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2017
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kymco Agility
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52315, longitude -0.01366, 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 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010040708
- 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
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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 slight injury crash on 17 March 1991.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kymco Agility
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Kymco Agility)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 2017010040708 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.