A12 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 October 2017 at 18:13 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets at 18:13 on Wednesday 4 October 2017. The 31-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2017
- Wednesday, 18:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53602, longitude -0.02521, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bow East, Tower Hamlets, E3 2RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010062622
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets, 18 November 1999
14 m awayRef 199901HT02107
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 25 November 2005
14 m awayRef 200501HT20819
Slight
Ford Scorpio crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 20 February 2002
14 m awayRef 200201HT00156
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 25 October 2007
14 m awayRef 200701HT68185
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 9 March 2024
16 m awayRef 2024010498828
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 2020
17 m awayRef 2020010246707
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
- 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 2017010062622 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.