B108 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 December 2003 at 07:05 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets at 07:05 on Sunday 21 December 2003. The 36-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52295, longitude -0.06427, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green East, Tower Hamlets, E1 4HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301HT09003
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 108
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 10 June 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010042256
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 1997
20 m awayRef 199701HT00365
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 6 July 2019
27 m awayRef 2019010191908
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 12 February 2024
29 m awayRef 2024010494204
Slight
Honda Pes 125 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 12 November 2014
32 m awayRef 201401HT21131
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 20 March 2023
37 m awayRef 2023010433439
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200301HT09003 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 2003.