B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 3 May 2017 at 19:09 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 19:09 on Wednesday 3 May 2017. The 61-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2017
- Wednesday, 19:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53104, longitude -0.03927, 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
- 2017010035328
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 4 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HH0111
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 4 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198401HH00314
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 17 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HH00430
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 29 October 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010067016
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 7 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00516
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 4 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017010035328 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 2017.