Serious unclassified road crash in Newham E20 on 15 August 2019 at 17:25 involving a bicycle
A bicycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Newham at 17:25 on Thursday 15 August 2019. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2019
- Thursday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54724, longitude -0.01277, in the E20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stratford Olympic Park, Newham, E20 1FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010200808
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2019.
Slight
Honda SH300A crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 9 August 2019
44 m awayRef 2019010199490
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 2 September 2025
50 m awayRef 2025010595259
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 7 June 2022
85 m awayRef 2022010380756
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 29 November 2025
87 m awayRef 2025010612291
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 29 November 2016
112 m awayRef 2016010004300
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 10 September 2022
119 m awayRef 2022010401740
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019010200808 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 2019.