B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 14 November 2016 at 22:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 22:00 on Monday 14 November 2016. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2016
- Monday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- 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
- 2016010001703
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
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 23 December 2013.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 23 December 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT21033
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 (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2016010001703 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 2016.