B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 9 April 2016 at 03:00 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 03:00 on Saturday 9 April 2016. A 22-year-old male passenger and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2016
- Saturday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53055, longitude -0.05083, in the E2 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
- 201601HT20387
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1992.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HB00244
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 2025
12 m awayRef 2025010576643
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 1999
20 m awayRef 199901HT00736
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 26 August 2007
28 m awayRef 200701HT66124
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 2008
28 m awayRef 200801HT73166
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 2 December 1986
28 m awayRef 198601HB00246
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 201601HT20387 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.