C road crash in Tower Hamlets E1W on 7 July 2019 at 05:20 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and a taxi were involved in a crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 05:20 on Sunday 7 July 2019. The 22-year-old male driver of the Hyundai i10 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2019
- Sunday, 05:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50709, longitude -0.05859, in the E1W 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 8BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010192100
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 1989.
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 1989
11 m awayRef 198901HD00180
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 3 December 2002
11 m awayRef 200201HT00972
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 7 March 2016
16 m awayRef 201601HT20426
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 5 September 1997
16 m awayRef 199701HT00443
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 9 July 2024
17 m awayRef 2024010520886
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 22 July 2022
23 m awayRef 2022010389962
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019010192100 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.