Serious A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 3 December 2008 at 21:32 involving a Ford
A Ford, a Mercedes S Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 21:32 on Wednesday 3 December 2008. An 18-year-old male passenger in the car was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 21:32
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50964, longitude -0.05345, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, E1W 3EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801HT76589
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1203
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 14 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HD00051
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 24 April 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HD00108
Serious
Car crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 5 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HD00091
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 28 January 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT69240
Serious
Car crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 3 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT68627
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 30 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198401HD00270
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes S Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Car
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200801HT76589 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.