A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 December 2018 at 09:50 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 09:50 on Tuesday 4 December 2018. The 32-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2018
- Tuesday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51057, longitude -0.04116, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, E1W 3EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010149939
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1203
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1203
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 November 1991.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HD00334
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 29 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199701HH09003
Slight
Porsche crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 28 February 2006
10 m awayRef 200601HT20074
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 26 June 2018
14 m awayRef 2018010117149
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 1 August 1998
20 m awayRef 199801HT00421
Slight
Van crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 10 March 2015
20 m awayRef 201501HT20277
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- 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 2018010149939 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.