A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 April 2014 at 11:50 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 11:50 on Sunday 20 April 2014. The 29-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2014
- Sunday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50717, longitude -0.01306, 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
- 201401HT20328
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1261
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1992.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 5 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199201HH00409
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 27 August 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT20784
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 26 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199401HH00321
Slight
Honda SH 125 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 18 November 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010610321
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 31 May 2015
20 m awayRef 201501HT20448
Slight
Toyota Supra crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 20 July 2014
20 m awayRef 201401HT20629
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201401HT20328 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 2014.