A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 11 May 2002 at 02:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 02:40 on Saturday 11 May 2002. The 34-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
- 11 May 2002
- Saturday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51464, longitude -0.06188, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201HT00392
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- B
- Second road number
- 108
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 7 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0251
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 24 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HD00083
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 October 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010067170
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 8 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00835
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 18 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20672
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 19 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HD00107
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, 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 200201HT00392 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 2002.