A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 26 January 1995 at 23:47 involving a Mazda 323
A car and a Mazda 323 were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 23:47 on Thursday 26 January 1995. The 33-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1995
- Thursday, 23:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda 323
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5141, longitude -0.05328, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501HD00019
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 2014.
Slight
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Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 10 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT67181
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 24 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HD0291
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Mercedes C Class crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 22 September 2015
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Honda Insight crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 22 December 2015
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Proton Proton crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 23 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HD00080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199501HD00019 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 1995.