A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 8 May 1999 at 14:40 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 14:40 on Saturday 8 May 1999. A 27-year-old female passenger in the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 1999
- Saturday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50134, longitude -0.0087, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901HT00455
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1999.
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Rover 600 Series crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 14 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00494
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Mercedes A Class crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 20 March 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010500984
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Bicycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 7 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010596095
Slight
Bus crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 17 June 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00250
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Motorcycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 29 June 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010HH0268
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 7 February 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00043
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199901HT00455 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 1999.