London borough · England
Tower Hamlets road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 5,002 injury collisions in Tower Hamlets's highway authority area, 781 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 5,002
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 5,692
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 19
- 762 serious, 4,221 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 84%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Tower Hamlets recorded 154 fatal or serious collisions, 1% below its average of 156 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | 158 | 954 | 1,114 | 1,281 |
160
|
| 2022 | 4 | 163 | 872 | 1,039 | 1,170 |
167
|
| 2023 | 3 | 148 | 848 | 999 | 1,148 |
151
|
| 2024 | 5 | 144 | 752 | 901 | 1,014 |
149
|
| 2025 | 5 | 149 | 795 | 949 | 1,079 |
154
|
| 2021–2025 | 19 | 762 | 4,221 | 5,002 | 5,692 | 781 |
Casualties by road user
5,692 people were hurt in these collisions: 19 killed, 785 seriously injured and 4,888 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 84% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 897 | 15.8% | 246 | 30.6% |
| Pedal cyclists | 1,607 | 28.2% | 239 | 29.7% |
| Motorcyclists | 1,222 | 21.5% | 191 | 23.8% |
| All road users | 5,692 | 100% | 804 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Tower Hamlets, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A11 781 collisions · 142 fatal or serious
- A13 627 collisions · 97 fatal or serious
- A1206 248 collisions · 41 fatal or serious
- A1205 217 collisions · 36 fatal or serious
- A1203 214 collisions · 38 fatal or serious
- A1209 156 collisions · 22 fatal or serious
- A12 150 collisions · 23 fatal or serious
- B108 141 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- B140 139 collisions · 21 fatal or serious
- A107 131 collisions · 25 fatal or serious
Areas within Tower Hamlets
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Tower Hamlets
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check Tower Hamlets's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.