B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 9 August 2009 at 14:50 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a car were involved in a crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 14:50 on Sunday 9 August 2009. The 21-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Fiat Punto were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2009
- Sunday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51716, longitude -0.02949, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT20488
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1205
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2002.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 20 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00604
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 24 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HH0181
Slight
Dennis crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 19 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00144
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 2 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00709
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00830
Serious
Dennis crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 20 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00447
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 200901HT20488 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 2009.