A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 February 2005 at 12:02 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Hyundai Sonata were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 12:02 on Sunday 20 February 2005. The 48-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra 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
- 20 Feb 2005
- Sunday, 12:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Hyundai Sonata
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5096, longitude -0.00287, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501HT20107
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1261
- 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
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 2002.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 21 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00432
Serious
BMW M4 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 28 March 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010434790
Serious
Yamaha Tracer crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 27 August 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010201852
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 24 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201001HT20945
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 20 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HH00351
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 26 October 2015
14 m awayRef 201501HT21117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Sonata
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 200501HT20107 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 2005.