A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 18 January 2015 at 21:18 involving a Suzuki SX4
A car and a Suzuki SX4 were involved in a crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 21:18 on Sunday 18 January 2015. The 34-year-old male driver of the car, a 29-year-old female passenger in the car and the 51-year-old male driver of the Suzuki SX4 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2015
- Sunday, 21:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki SX4
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49917, longitude -0.02611, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets, E14 9XF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20068
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2016.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 26 August 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20794
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 21 July 1992
10 m awayRef 199201HH00287
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 3 May 2016
10 m awayRef 201601HT20503
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 21 April 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT20385
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 7 June 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010HH0231
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 20 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HH00702
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SX4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,586 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki SX4)
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 201501HT20068 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 2015.