A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 16 April 2011 at 11:07 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a car were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 11:07 on Saturday 16 April 2011. The 25-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2011
- Saturday, 11:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51297, longitude 0.00016, 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
- 201101HT20195
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 13
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 serious injury crash on 25 April 2013.
Serious
Peugeot Bipper crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 25 April 2013
At the same spotRef 201301KF60232
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HH00238
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 5 June 2006
At the same spotRef 200601HT20290
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 14 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00401
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 2 July 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010317091
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010589041
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 201101HT20195 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 2011.