C road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 3 October 2008 at 12:27 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 12:27 on Friday 3 October 2008. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2008
- Friday, 12:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5171, longitude -0.03166, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley South, Tower Hamlets, E3 3RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801HT75321
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 140
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2004.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 17 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00609
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 7 April 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT20272
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 24 November 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010004462
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 21 August 2012
10 m awayRef 201201HT20582
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 16 February 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010018676
Slight
Bedford crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 18 May 1996
14 m awayRef 199601HH00180
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200801HT75321 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.