A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 26 July 2015 at 18:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 18:00 on Sunday 26 July 2015. The 20-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50845, longitude -0.02225, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20648
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1203
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 1994.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 8 November 1994
10 m awayRef 199401HH00414
Slight
Car crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 28 June 2000
14 m awayRef 200001HT00581
Slight
Car crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 5 February 2015
14 m awayRef 201501HT20101
Slight
Car crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 2007
14 m awayRef 200701HT67923
Serious
Volvo 340 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 1995
14 m awayRef 199501HH00310
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 4 November 2016
14 m awayRef 2016010000426
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 201501HT20648 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.