A12 crash in Tower Hamlets on 13 June 2022 at 14:40 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets at 14:40 on Monday 13 June 2022. The 44-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2022
- Monday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52759, longitude -0.01172, 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 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010382108
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 2002.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 26 December 2002
4 m awayRef 200201HT09001
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 23 February 2007
9 m awayRef 200701HT20103
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 12 April 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010178155
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 21 November 2014
11 m awayRef 201401HT21116
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 16 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010580833
Slight
Car crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 18 May 1985
13 m awayRef 198501HH00214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 2022010382108 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.