A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 2 October 2015 at 16:40 involving a Porsche Cayenne
A Porsche Cayenne and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 16:40 on Friday 2 October 2015. The 55-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2015
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche Cayenne and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50727, longitude -0.01582, 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 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20932
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1261
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2004.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TC00887
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 23 November 2007
10 m awayRef 200701HT67986
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 11 November 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010069427
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 30 September 2022
10 m awayRef 2022010401950
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 3 May 2011
14 m awayRef 201101HT20224
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 28 June 2019
15 m awayRef 2019010190255
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Cayenne
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
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 201501HT20932 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.