B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 29 November 2015 at 02:16 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 02:16 on Sunday 29 November 2015. The 59-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2015
- Sunday, 02:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53171, longitude -0.0361, in the E3 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
- 201501HT21085
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 16 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HH00570
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 5 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00037
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 19 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00396
Fatal
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 30 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201601TD00049
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 12 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HH00300
Slight
Bus crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 19 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HH0223
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 201501HT21085 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 2015.