Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E1 on 13 September 2016 at 21:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A car and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 21:30 on Tuesday 13 September 2016. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2016
- Tuesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51878, longitude -0.046, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010012958
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 121
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
- 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 24 August 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20793
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 17 August 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010527498
Slight
Morris crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 3 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199001HD00096
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 11 February 2020
10 m awayRef 2020010235833
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 23 September 1997
20 m awayRef 199701HT00474
Serious
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 27 February 1995
22 m awayRef 199501HD00056
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016010012958 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 2016.