B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 30 June 2008 at 20:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 20:00 on Monday 30 June 2008. The female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2008
- Monday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Peugeot 306
- 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
- 200801HT73166
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 26 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT66124
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 (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200801HT73166 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 2008.