B121 crash in Tower Hamlets on 11 July 2023 at 16:51 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius hit a pedestrian on the B121 in Tower Hamlets at 16:51 on Tuesday 11 July 2023. A female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2023
- Tuesday, 16:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51792, longitude -0.04423, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010454601
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 121
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 9 February 1987
20 m awayRef 198701HD00045
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 10 August 1987
20 m awayRef 198701HD00238
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 1983
23 m awayRef 1983010HD0192
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 28 March 2001
25 m awayRef 200101HT00371
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 1 April 1995
37 m awayRef 199501HD00095
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 17 December 2025
46 m awayRef 2025010615988
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2023010454601 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.