B108 crash in Tower Hamlets on 15 May 2016 at 14:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets at 14:05 on Sunday 15 May 2016. The 18-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 26-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2016
- Sunday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52152, longitude -0.06448, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spitalfields & Banglatown, Tower Hamlets, E1 6RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20459
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 108
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 November 1989.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 6 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HB00265
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 10 June 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010381492
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 19 October 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HB00249
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 29 August 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HB00182
Slight
Car crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 7 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198401HB00231
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 30 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801HT00604
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201601HT20459 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.