A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 March 2016 at 11:14 involving a Mazda 3
A Mazda 3 and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 11:14 on Saturday 5 March 2016. The 34-year-old female driver of the Mazda 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2016
- Saturday, 11:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 3 and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51109, longitude -0.00021, 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
- 201601HT20196
- 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
- One way street
- 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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2024.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 9 August 2024
15 m awayRef 2024010526302
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 28 January 2017
22 m awayRef 2017010014956
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 25 February 2003
22 m awayRef 200301HT00153
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 15 November 2019
28 m awayRef 2019010218568
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1020 in Tower Hamlets, 3 May 1999
28 m awayRef 199901HT00460
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 2025
28 m awayRef 2025010607282
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201601HT20196 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.