Serious B122 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 April 2014 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B122 in Tower Hamlets at 18:30 on Sunday 20 April 2014. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Apr 2014
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52627, longitude -0.07494, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT20364
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 122
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 122
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199701HT00106
Slight
Car crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 14 January 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010011580
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 27 April 1990
42 m awayRef 199001HB00080
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 29 January 1986
45 m awayRef 198601HB00017
Slight
Car crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 12 April 1984
45 m awayRef 198401HB00094
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 18 January 2018
50 m awayRef 2018010086796
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201401HT20364 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.