A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 December 2020 at 19:32 involving a Nissan
A Nissan and a Mercedes Vito taxi were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 19:32 on Saturday 19 December 2020. A 58-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Nissan was 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
- 19 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 19:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan and Mercedes Vito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52729, longitude -0.02555, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010285673
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 2019.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 19 February 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010164869
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 April 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010567404
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 4 December 2002
9 m awayRef 200201HT01025
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 28 October 2004
9 m awayRef 200401HT00709
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 7 May 2002
9 m awayRef 200201HT00417
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 24 May 2018
9 m awayRef 2018010110248
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Vito
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2020010285673 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.