A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 December 2014 at 05:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 05:30 on Sunday 28 December 2014. The 37-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 05:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52471, longitude -0.03493, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT21217
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1205
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 11
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2015.
Slight
Bus crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 6 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20460
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 2 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20737
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 9 September 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20662
Serious
Renault Trucks crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 13 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010437194
Slight
Toyota Camry crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 July 1994
10 m awayRef 199401HH00251
Slight
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 10 July 1994
10 m awayRef 199401HH00248
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, 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 201401HT21217 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.