B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 May 2018 at 16:04 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 16:04 on Friday 4 May 2018. A 17-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2018
- Friday, 16:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5183, longitude -0.02497, 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 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010105920
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2001.
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 6 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00261
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00521
Slight
Bus crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 2 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0504
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 16 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00044
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 19 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HH00028
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 26 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0492
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018010105920 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 2018.