A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 May 2014 at 18:15 involving a Mercedes E Class
A car and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 18:15 on Sunday 4 May 2014. The 35-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2014
- Sunday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51287, longitude -0.04193, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT20343
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 26 June 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 June 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT73359
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HD00186
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT01124
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 4 May 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20911
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 18 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20320
Slight
Piaggio Liberty crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20274
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201401HT20343 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.