A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 July 2006 at 14:11 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a BMW X5 were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 14:11 on Friday 21 July 2006. The 57-year-old male driver of the BMW X5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2006
- Friday, 14:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and BMW X5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50708, longitude -0.0135, 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
- 200601HT20386
- 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
- 50 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 May 2014.
Serious
Honda WW125 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 21 May 2014
14 m awayRef 201401HT21018
Slight
Toyota Supra crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 20 July 2014
14 m awayRef 201401HT20629
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 6 September 2023
16 m awayRef 2023010464330
Slight
Honda SH 125 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 18 November 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010610321
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 20 April 2014
32 m awayRef 201401HT20328
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 5 October 1992
36 m awayRef 199201HH00409
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW X5)
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 200601HT20386 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 2006.