A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 16 February 2015 at 15:35 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius and a Volvo van were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 15:35 on Monday 16 February 2015. The 41-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius 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
- 16 Feb 2015
- Monday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Prius and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51556, longitude -0.07081, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20202
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 11
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2018.
Slight
Volvo S90 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010141302
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 20 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HD00073
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 20 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010079423
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 27 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HD00115
Slight
Volvo crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 5 November 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20947
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 9 August 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010591087
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
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 201501HT20202 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.