B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 April 2001 at 19:54 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Peugeot 405 were involved in a crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 19:54 on Tuesday 10 April 2001. The 37-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 405 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
- 10 Apr 2001
- Tuesday, 19:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52372, longitude -0.06755, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spitalfields & Banglatown, Tower Hamlets, E1 6RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT00399
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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 20 September 2000.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 20 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00864
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 3 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00907
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00549
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 24 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00165
Serious
Toyota C-HR crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 18 February 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010560788
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 17 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HB00119
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 405)
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 200101HT00399 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 2001.