Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E14 on 10 February 2003 at 07:49 involving a Porsche 911
A Porsche 911 crashed on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 07:49 on Monday 10 February 2003. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 2003
- Monday, 07:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche 911
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51043, longitude 0.00149, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301HT00078
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1020
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2002.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 911
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol and LPG
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 911)
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 200301HT00078 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 2003.