A102 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 October 2017 at 22:24 involving a Honda HR-V
A Honda HR-V, a Porsche Panamera and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets at 22:24 on Wednesday 4 October 2017. The 48-year-old male driver of the Honda HR-V, a 50-year-old female passenger in the Honda HR-V and a 16-year-old male passenger in the Honda HR-V were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2017
- Wednesday, 22:24
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda HR-V and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53346, longitude -0.02244, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010062636
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 102
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1989.
Slight
Scooter crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 19 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00469
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets, 10 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00229
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets, 10 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT02177
Slight
Bus crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00414
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 16 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT76833
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 27 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00707
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda HR-V
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Porsche Panamera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,894 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda HR-V)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda HR-V)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda HR-V)
- 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 2017010062636 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.