B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 December 2013 at 18:40 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 18:40 on Monday 23 December 2013. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a flooded single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2013
- Monday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53197, longitude -0.04442, in the E3 postcode district. 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
- 201301HT21033
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2016.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 14 November 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010001703
Slight
Van crash on the B127 in Tower Hamlets, 15 January 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010354877
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 12 July 2020
9 m awayRef 2020010256177
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 27 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001HT01071
Slight
Renault crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 21 March 1992
10 m awayRef 199201HH00109
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 24 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT00425
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 201301HT21033 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.