A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 July 2017 at 08:55 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 08:55 on Friday 21 July 2017. The 41-year-old male driver and a female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2017
- Friday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51103, longitude -0.01491, 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
- 2017010049970
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 May 1997.
Serious
Piaggio Sfera crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 16 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HH00182
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 9 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20013
Slight
Honda SES125 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 22 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601HT20458
Slight
Bus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 4 April 2011
10 m awayRef 201101HT20168
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 2 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198601HH00150
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 15 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HH00449
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2017010049970 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 2017.