A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 August 2017 at 15:17 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and an Audi Q7 were involved in a crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 15:17 on Monday 28 August 2017. The 55-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2017
- Monday, 15:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Audi Q7
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52389, longitude -0.07417, 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
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010056245
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 122
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 slight injury crash on 26 February 1993.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 26 February 1993
At the same spotRef 199301HB00030
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 22 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20312
Slight
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 15 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20167
Slight
Toyota Prius+ crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 2 September 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010060798
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HB00223
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 23 July 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010122813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi Q7
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- 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 2017010056245 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.