A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 6 October 2016 at 08:09 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 08:09 on Thursday 6 October 2016. The 41-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper 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
- 6 Oct 2016
- Thursday, 08:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50854, longitude -0.00378, 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
- 2016010030015
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2018.
Slight
Honda AFS1102SH crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 3 September 2018
14 m awayRef 2018010130400
Slight
Yamaha FZ6 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 30 September 2020
15 m awayRef 2020010270909
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 2014
22 m awayRef 201401HT21189
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 7 August 2017
28 m awayRef 2017010052506
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 17 November 2024
31 m awayRef 2024010544034
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 21 April 2004
32 m awayRef 200401HT00254
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2016010030015 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.