A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 May 2016 at 11:00 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius and a car were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 11:00 on Wednesday 4 May 2016. The 44-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2016
- Wednesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Prius and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51287, longitude -0.04193, 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
- 201601HT20911
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 June 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT73359
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HD00186
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 4 May 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20343
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT01124
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 18 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20320
Slight
Piaggio Liberty crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20274
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- 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 201601HT20911 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.