Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 25 May 2020 at 19:08 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 19:08 on Monday 25 May 2020. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 2020
- Monday, 19:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51922, longitude -0.01692, 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 South, Tower Hamlets, E3 3RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010249075
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- C
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2021.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 6 September 2021
1 m awayRef 2021010329391
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 3 October 2022
2 m awayRef 2022010402597
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 1985
8 m awayRef 198501HH00405
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 26 July 2016
8 m awayRef 201601HT20783
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 28 August 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010594311
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 31 October 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010408064
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,208 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- 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 2020010249075 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 2020.