A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 1 December 2018 at 19:03 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 19:03 on Saturday 1 December 2018. The 34-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 19:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50795, longitude -0.00813, 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
- 2018010149306
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1261
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
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 18 December 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 18 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200601HT29046
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 4 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00734
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 29 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00979
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 16 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200601HT20510
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 28 November 2021
2 m awayRef 2021010346691
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 28 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010418680
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010149306 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.