B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 November 2013 at 19:15 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 19:15 on Thursday 21 November 2013. The 36-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2013
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52068, longitude -0.01954, 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
- 201301HT20956
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 1988.
Slight
Van crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 4 June 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HH00243
Serious
Honda CB350S crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 9 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HH00152
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 13 October 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010471720
Serious
Suzuki Alto crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010363837
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 7 August 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010591013
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 28 August 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010396475
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
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 201301HT20956 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 2013.