A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 May 2012 at 15:30 involving a taxi
A taxi and a car were involved in a crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 15:30 on Saturday 19 May 2012. The 37-year-old male driver of the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2012
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52513, longitude -0.0711, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weavers, Tower Hamlets, E2 7LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20303
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1209
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 1 March 2000.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 1 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00402
Serious
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HB00112
Slight
MZ crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00040
Slight
Bus crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00233
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 30 August 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HB00180
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 3 August 2022
2 m awayRef 2022010391994
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 201201HT20303 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 2012.