A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 11 August 2022 at 11:00 involving a Volvo V60
A Volvo V60 and a Volvo were involved in a crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 11:00 on Thursday 11 August 2022. The 24-year-old female driver of the Volvo V60 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 2022
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V60 and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50668, longitude -0.00765, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010393369
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2024.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 15 January 2024
8 m awayRef 2024010489562
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 26 July 1995
9 m awayRef 199501HH00300
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 22 July 1997
9 m awayRef 199701HH00288
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 28 November 1998
9 m awayRef 199801HH00514
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 2001
9 m awayRef 200101HT01011
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 7 June 2009
9 m awayRef 200901HT20288
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V60)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2022010393369 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.