C road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 26 July 2016 at 18:01 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 18:01 on Tuesday 26 July 2016. The 22-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2016
- Tuesday, 18:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5191, longitude -0.01687, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley South, Tower Hamlets, E3 3RZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20783
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 27 September 1985.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501HH00405
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 3 October 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010402597
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 25 May 2020
8 m awayRef 2020010249075
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 6 September 2021
9 m awayRef 2021010329391
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 28 March 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00109
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 5 August 2013
10 m awayRef 201301HT20591
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)
- 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 201601HT20783 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.