Road crashes in Tower Hamlets

24,274 recorded collisions since 2000.

Tower Hamlets has recorded 24,274 road collisions since 2000, 138 of them fatal and 3,092 causing serious injury. That makes it the 25th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 5.7 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 21% since 2000, from 1,140 to 901 in 2024. The A11 is the most affected road locally, with 4,278 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.