B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 August 2025 at 23:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 23:20 on Thursday 7 August 2025. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2025
- Thursday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52072, longitude -0.01947, 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 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010591013
- 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
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2022.
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 28 August 2022
2 m awayRef 2022010396475
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 13 October 2023
2 m awayRef 2023010471720
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 15 April 1991
4 m awayRef 199101HH00164
Slight
Van crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 4 June 1988
6 m awayRef 198801HH00243
Serious
Honda CB350S crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 9 April 1998
6 m awayRef 199801HH00152
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 21 November 2013
6 m awayRef 201301HT20956
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025010591013 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.