A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 9 January 2009 at 15:15 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 15:15 on Friday 9 January 2009. The 48-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2009
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50642, longitude -0.02722, 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 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT76768
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1206
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2000.
Slight
Yamaha XJ 900 S crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 12 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00590
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 11 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00463
Slight
Honda crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 18 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT00626
Slight
Honda CB500 crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 16 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT00628
Slight
Bus crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 30 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HH00448
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 27 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HH00380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 200901HT76768 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 2009.