Serious B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 February 2002 at 12:13 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 12:13 on Friday 22 February 2002. The 24-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Feb 2002
- Friday, 12:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51779, longitude -0.04071, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201HT00177
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 26 February 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HD0057
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 14 June 2012
10 m awayRef 201201HT20414
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 12 April 2011
10 m awayRef 201101TA00854
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 6 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HD00055
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 19 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT01070
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 16 June 2025
12 m awayRef 2025010581026
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200201HT00177 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 2002.