A3211 crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 October 2010 at 04:00 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A3211 in Tower Hamlets at 04:00 on Sunday 10 October 2010. The 41-year-old male driver of the van 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
- 10 Oct 2010
- Sunday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50943, longitude -0.07853, in the EC3N postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Candlewick, City of London, EC4R 9AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201001HT20751
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3211
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 100
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A3211 in Tower Hamlets, 17 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201CP00222
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A3211 in Tower Hamlets, 25 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201CP00322
Slight
Car crash on the A100 in Tower Hamlets, 22 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT29013
Slight
Taxi crash on the A3211 in Tower Hamlets, 14 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200801CP00041
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 17 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200501CP00086
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A3211 in Tower Hamlets, 8 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501CP00030
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: 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: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 201001HT20751 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 2010.