A107 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 March 2022 at 07:00 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets at 07:00 on Monday 7 March 2022. The 42-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2022
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52688, longitude -0.05558, 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 West, Tower Hamlets, E2 0BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010364241
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 107
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2017.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 2017
4 m awayRef 2017010063860
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 14 July 1999
4 m awayRef 199901HT00709
Slight
Car crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 2011
4 m awayRef 201101HT20753
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 27 December 2012
4 m awayRef 201201HT20987
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010608659
Slight
Bus crash on the A107 in Tower Hamlets, 5 June 1985
8 m awayRef 198501HB00144
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2022010364241 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 2022.