B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 August 2002 at 20:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 20:15 on Monday 5 August 2002. The 37-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2002
- Monday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52886, longitude -0.06243, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green West, Tower Hamlets, E2 0BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201HT00643
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2000.
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 7 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00612
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 8 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HT00528
Slight
Van crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 22 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20399
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2021
1 m awayRef 2021010334118
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 11 January 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010354159
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 15 December 2024
8 m awayRef 2024010549392
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200201HT00643 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.