C road crash in Tower Hamlets E2 on 12 August 2012 at 14:10 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 14:10 on Sunday 12 August 2012. The 41-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2012
- Sunday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52682, longitude -0.07506, 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
- 201201HT20643
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 2018.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 20 November 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010146837
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 23 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HB00015
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 26 November 2025
37 m awayRef 2025010612208
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 11 October 1988
41 m awayRef 198801HB00250
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 20 April 2014
61 m awayRef 201401HT20364
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 1997
63 m awayRef 199701HT00106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 3,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
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 201201HT20643 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.