Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 13 December 2017 at 16:35 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 16:35 on Wednesday 13 December 2017. A 19-year-old female pedestrian and a 20-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52315, longitude -0.0138, 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
- 2017010077664
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2022.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 16 September 2022
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Slight
Toyota crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 11 October 2021
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Serious
Nissan E-NV200 crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 23 September 2019
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Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 28 May 2025
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Slight
Kymco Agility crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 26 May 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010040708
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 17 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HH00105
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2017010077664 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.