Unclassified road crash in Newham E16 on 10 August 2003 at 01:32 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Newham at 01:32 on Sunday 10 August 2003. The 41-year-old male driver of the van 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2003
- Sunday, 01:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5117, longitude 0.02187, in the E16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Royal Victoria, Newham, E16 1FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301TC00453
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 13 July 1988
40 m awayRef 198801KE00331
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 26 November 1982
41 m awayRef 1982010KE0525
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 1 June 1992
45 m awayRef 199201KO00252
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 18 March 1999
50 m awayRef 199901KO00120
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 16 April 1986
51 m awayRef 198601KE00178
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 17 September 1999
51 m awayRef 199901KO00471
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 200301TC00453 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 2003.