A12 crash in Tower Hamlets on 13 June 2008 at 11:10 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic, a Ford Transit van and a Citroen Berlingo van were involved in a crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets at 11:10 on Friday 13 June 2008. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2008
- Friday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda Civic and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51166, longitude -0.00739, 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
- 200801HT73388
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 13
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 22 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT02110
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 7 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00299
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 6 December 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010547714
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 5 August 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010260349
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 2 July 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010584157
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010600083
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Berlingo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 200801HT73388 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 2008.