B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 26 August 2007 at 10:51 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 10:51 on Sunday 26 August 2007. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2007
- Sunday, 10:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53073, longitude -0.05053, 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 East, Tower Hamlets, E2 0FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701HT66124
- 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
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT73166
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 1985
20 m awayRef 198501HB00043
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 5 October 1990
22 m awayRef 199001HB00221
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 2025
27 m awayRef 2025010576643
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 1992
28 m awayRef 199201HB00244
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 9 April 2016
28 m awayRef 201601HT20387
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200701HT66124 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 2007.