A115 crash in Tower Hamlets on 18 December 2001 at 18:14 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a car were involved in a crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets at 18:14 on Tuesday 18 December 2001. The 26-year-old male driver of the Renault Laguna and the 34-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2001
- Tuesday, 18:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54193, longitude -0.02683, in the E9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hackney Wick, Hackney, E9 5TL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT09012
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 115
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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 28 September 2003.
Slight
Car crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 28 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301HT00715
Serious
Car crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 15 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT01211
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 25 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601GD00468
Slight
Renault 25 crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 3 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HH00285
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 25 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HH00561
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 8 November 2022
10 m awayRef 2022010409266
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200101HT09012 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.