A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 17 July 2012 at 11:59 involving a Daewoo Lanos
A Daewoo Lanos and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 11:59 on Tuesday 17 July 2012. The 67-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Lanos 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
- 17 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 11:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Lanos and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51826, longitude -0.06317, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20491
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2018.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 28 December 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010155670
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 14 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HD00067
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 23 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00247
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0139
Slight
Honda VTR1000SP crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 9 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00162
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 3 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010136769
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Lanos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Lanos)
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 201201HT20491 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.