A101 crash in Tower Hamlets on 30 October 2020 at 18:36 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on the A101 in Tower Hamlets at 18:36 on Friday 30 October 2020. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2020
- Friday, 18:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50675, longitude -0.04856, in the E1W postcode district. 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
- 2020010277130
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A101 in Tower Hamlets, 25 November 2018
12 m awayRef 2018010147903
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the A101 in Tower Hamlets, 11 November 2023
15 m awayRef 2023010477372
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A101 in Southwark, 25 May 1982
19 m awayRef 1982010MD0253
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 1984
29 m awayRef 198401HD00297
Serious
Mini One crash on the A101 in Southwark, 6 March 2020
34 m awayRef 2020010240467
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 8 April 1985
39 m awayRef 198501HD00079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 2020010277130 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 2020.