A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 February 2019 at 11:10 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 11:10 on Saturday 23 February 2019. A 32-year-old female passenger in the car, a 7-year-old male passenger in the car and a 5-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2019
- Saturday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51028, longitude -0.04538, in the E1W 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
- 2019010165130
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1991.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 6 December 1991
2 m awayRef 199101HD00374
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 4 February 2000
2 m awayRef 200001HT00119
Slight
Audi A7 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 28 February 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010561367
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 28 July 2019
3 m awayRef 2019010196829
Slight
Nissan Leaf crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 28 September 2021
3 m awayRef 2021010334052
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 11 August 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010199096
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2019010165130 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 2019.