A102(M) crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 October 1999 at 18:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets at 18:50 on Sunday 10 October 1999. A 27-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 1999
- Sunday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53615, longitude -0.02535, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901HT01033
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 102
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 19 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HH00380
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets, 18 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT02107
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Ford Scorpio crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 20 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200201HT00156
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Car crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 20 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HH00128
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10 m awayRef 200501HT20819
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10 m awayRef 2025010552747
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 199901HT01033 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.