A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 3 October 2018 at 04:00 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Toyota Celica were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 04:00 on Wednesday 3 October 2018. The 41-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Toyota Celica
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51831, longitude -0.06317, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010136769
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 108
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 28 December 2018.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 28 December 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010155670
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 14 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HD00067
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 23 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00247
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0139
Slight
Honda VTR1000SP crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 9 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00162
Slight
Daewoo Lanos crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 17 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20491
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2018010136769 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 2018.