B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 October 1999 at 19:05 involving a Vauxhall Calibra
A Vauxhall Calibra and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 19:05 on Tuesday 19 October 1999. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 1999
- Tuesday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Calibra and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51788, longitude -0.0407, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901HT01070
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 140
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 6 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HD00055
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 26 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0057
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 16 June 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010581026
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 16 March 1984
10 m awayRef 198401HD00084
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 1984
10 m awayRef 198401HD00244
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 9 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201001HT20143
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Calibra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 199901HT01070 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 1999.