A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 17 January 2016 at 00:15 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A van and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 00:15 on Sunday 17 January 2016. The 29-year-old male driver of the Nissan Qashqai was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52358, longitude -0.0752, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hackney, EC2A 2BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20054
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1209
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 15 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HB0159
Slight
Car crash on the A1209 in Hackney, 26 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HB00032
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A1209 in Hackney, 3 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00494
Serious
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 10 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HB0369
Slight
Bus crash on the A1209 in Hackney, 29 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HB00229
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1209 in Hackney, 9 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HB00149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201601HT20054 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.