A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 29 December 2001 at 23:25 involving a Jaguar Sovereign
A Jaguar Sovereign crashed on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 23:25 on Saturday 29 December 2001. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2001
- Saturday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar Sovereign
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50753, longitude -0.02947, in the E14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 6JJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT01316
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1203
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 1997.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 26 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701HH00148
Slight
Honda NT650V Deauville crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 22 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200101HT01279
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 18 January 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010554689
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 6 September 1999
22 m awayRef 199901HT00913
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 16 April 2002
22 m awayRef 200201HT00319
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 13 December 1999
28 m awayRef 199901HT02207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar Sovereign
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,980 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar Sovereign)
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 200101HT01316 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 2001.