A107 crash in Tower Hamlets on 27 December 2012 at 16:36 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets at 16:36 on Thursday 27 December 2012. The 49-year-old female driver of the Citroen C4 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 16:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C4 and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52685, longitude -0.0556, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green West, Tower Hamlets, E2 0BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20987
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 107
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 7 October 2017.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010063860
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 14 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00709
Slight
Car crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20753
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 7 March 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010364241
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010608659
Slight
Bus crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 5 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HB00144
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C4)
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 201201HT20987 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.