Serious A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 2 June 2023 at 00:21 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 00:21 on Friday 2 June 2023. A 22-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jun 2023
- Friday, 00:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51265, longitude -0.00021, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010446472
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1268
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2019.
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 21 January 2019
1 m awayRef 2019010158567
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1268 in Tower Hamlets, 29 November 2001
4 m awayRef 200101HT01254
Slight
Mini One crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 13 June 2008
4 m awayRef 200801HT73104
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A1263 in Tower Hamlets, 6 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010369512
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 9 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010608789
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 19 July 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010456011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2023010446472 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 2023.