A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 October 2007 at 05:50 involving a Vauxhall Omega
A car and a Vauxhall Omega were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 05:50 on Friday 19 October 2007. The 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Omega 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
- 19 Oct 2007
- Friday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Omega
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51297, longitude -0.04293, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701HT67383
- 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
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 6 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20854
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 25 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT21000
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 5 August 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20571
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 21 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010417577
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200601HT20701
Slight
Volvo crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 1 November 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010000031
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- 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
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Omega)
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 200701HT67383 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 2007.