B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 17 February 2025 at 11:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 11:25 on Monday 17 February 2025. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 17 Feb 2025
- Monday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52287, longitude -0.01612, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010559634
- 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
- B
- First road number
- 140
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2025.
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 14 January 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010554030
Serious
BMW X3 crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 18 August 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010394688
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 2010
5 m awayRef 201001HT20162
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 26 April 1999
5 m awayRef 199901HT00428
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 11 July 2000
5 m awayRef 200001HT00614
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 31 March 1998
5 m awayRef 199801HH00150
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010559634 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 2025.