A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 May 2022 at 23:00 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 and an Audi S3 were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 23:00 on Saturday 7 May 2022. A 20-year-old male passenger in the Audi S3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2022
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A1 and Audi S3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52649, longitude -0.02839, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010375083
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 22 January 2014
4 m awayRef 201401HT20021
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 18 February 1986
4 m awayRef 198601HH00082
Slight
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 23 July 2010
4 m awayRef 201001HT20542
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 18 February 1999
4 m awayRef 199901HT00170
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010270295
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 29 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010578228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi S3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi S3)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2022010375083 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 2022.