B108 crash in Tower Hamlets on 27 September 2025 at 23:47 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B108 in Tower Hamlets at 23:47 on Saturday 27 September 2025. The 20-year-old driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 23:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53122, longitude -0.0697, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hackney, N1 6RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010603481
- 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
- 108
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1208
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2006.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the B108 in Hackney, 25 June 2006
6 m awayRef 200601GD10348
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the B108 in Hackney, 1 April 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010299815
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1208 in Hackney, 27 April 2021
13 m awayRef 2021010304195
Slight
Car crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 29 July 1987
14 m awayRef 198701GH00355
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2008
14 m awayRef 200801GD74931
Serious
Honda ANF125 crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 8 March 2008
14 m awayRef 200801GD70395
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- First point of impact
- Back
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightAged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2025010603481 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.