My car was hit on Mile End Road and it was not my fault. What should I do first?

Stop, make the scene safe and exchange names, addresses, vehicle registrations and insurer details. If the other driver refuses, cannot be identified or leaves, you have a legal duty under section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to report it to the police as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 24 hours, using the Metropolitan Police online report or 101; dial 999 if anyone is injured, the carriageway is blocked or drink or drugs are suspected. Photograph the vehicles in position, the damage on both cars, the road markings and the cycle track and lane layout, and note the exact junction, because on the A11 that decides who holds the CCTV. Ask nearby shops, the university buildings or the estate office whether their cameras cover the spot, since most systems overwrite within 14 to 31 days. Then call CityGrip. As an accident management company we can arrange recovery, secure storage, a like-for-like replacement vehicle, an engineer inspection and repair, and deal with the third party's insurer for you. We do not handle injury claims in house: if anyone was hurt, we refer that part to an authorised legal partner only with your separate written consent.

Who holds the CCTV of a collision at the Mile End Road and Burdett Road junction?

It depends on exactly where the impact happened, because that junction sits on the boundary between two highway authorities. The A11 Mile End Road is a Transport for London red route, and Burdett Road and Grove Road carry red route controls, so TfL is the relevant body for the main carriageway; the residential streets running off it are the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. In practice the borough system is often the better first request, because TfL's cameras on its road network are run mainly for traffic management and enforcement and do not necessarily retain a continuous recording that can be pulled afterwards. Tower Hamlets deletes its recordings after 30 days as standard and will only deal with an insurer or a solicitor on a non-criminal traffic matter, not with the driver directly. Its process is to confirm within about ten working days whether anything was captured, hold it for six months once flagged, then release it against signed paperwork and a fee (£125 plus VAT at the time of writing). Because the window is short, CityGrip sends preservation requests to the authority and to nearby private operators in the first days after instruction rather than waiting for liability to be argued.

I drive private hire in E1 and E3. Can I get a replacement vehicle while mine is repaired?

Yes. If you were not at fault, CityGrip can arrange a like-for-like replacement vehicle so you keep working while your own car is off the road, and where your licensing requires a private hire ready vehicle we source one that meets that requirement rather than handing you something you cannot legally use for hire and reward. It will also be ULEZ compliant, which matters because the expanded ULEZ has covered every London borough since 29 August 2023 and Mile End sits well inside it. We arrange recovery from the scene, secure storage rather than leaving your vehicle on a red route or in a controlled parking zone collecting penalty charge notices, an independent engineer inspection, repair through an approved bodyshop and all correspondence with the third party's insurer. We work with car and van drivers, including private hire, PCO and minicab drivers; we do not take on HGV, lorry, bus, coach or hackney carriage work. Our fees are deliberately low and confirmed in writing up front, because inflated charges come straight out of what a claimant ends up with.

Where is the nearest A&E to Mile End, and does Mile End Hospital have one?

The nearest full 24-hour blue-light A&E is The Royal London Hospital on Whitechapel Road, E1 1FR, roughly a mile west of Mile End station along the A11. It runs a 24/7 consultant-led adult emergency department with a separate children's emergency department, and it is one of London's major trauma centres and the daytime base for London's Air Ambulance. Mile End Hospital on Bancroft Road, despite the name and its position in the middle of the area, is a Barts Health community hospital providing outpatient and community services and has no emergency department, so do not head there after a collision. Newham University Hospital (E13 8SL), Homerton University Hospital (E9 6SR) and Whipps Cross (E11 1NR) all have emergency departments too, but from Mile End they are further out than The Royal London. Call 999 for anything serious. If you or a passenger were injured, CityGrip does not handle injury claims in house: with your separate written consent we refer that element to an authorised legal partner while we carry on with recovery, storage, replacement vehicle and repair.

Do the ULEZ, the Congestion Charge and the new tunnel charges affect a non-fault claim in Mile End?

They do not change who is liable for a collision, but they change the practical picture around it. Mile End sits inside the expanded ULEZ, which has covered every London borough since 29 August 2023, so any replacement vehicle we provide has to be compliant or you inherit a daily charge. Mile End is outside the Congestion Charge zone, whose eastern boundary runs along Commercial Street and Mansell Street, but a westbound run into the City crosses into it and the daily charge rose to £18 from January 2026, with private hire vehicles no longer exempt. To the east, the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels have both carried a user charge from 6am to 10pm every day since Silvertown opened on 7 April 2025, which is one reason the A12 approach at Bow generates queue-end shunts as drivers hesitate or change route late. When CityGrip puts a claim together we account for the charges and running costs your vehicle would genuinely have incurred, and we make sure the replacement you are given can actually be driven and worked in this part of London without picking up avoidable penalties.

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Car Accident Claims Mile End | Non-Fault Support, E1, E3

Name: CityGrip Accident Claims
Address: 124 City Road, Mile End, Greater London, E1, GB
Telephone: 0333 335 7686

24/7 recovery, secure storage, repairs and like-for-like replacement vehicle support for non-fault drivers in Mile End (E1, E3). CCTV disclosure filed inside the 14-day retention window.

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Car accident claims coverage in Mile End, London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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Reviewed: 2 August 2026Written & reviewed by: CityGrip Editorial Team (City Grip Ltd)Borough: London Borough of Tower HamletsPostcodes: E1, E3Nearest A&E: The Royal London Hospital (E1 1FR)

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Do you cover non-fault accident claims in Mile End?

Yes - we coordinate non-fault car and van accident management across all E1, E3 postcode areas within Mile End, part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Services include 24/7 recovery to a CCTV-monitored partner yard, secure storage, repair coordination and like-for-like replacement vehicle screening. We file CCTV disclosure with the relevant highway authority inside the typical 14 to 31-day footage retention window, and we coordinate with the Metropolitan Police for collision reporting under the Road Traffic Act 1988.

Borough

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Postcodes

E1, E3

ULEZ status

Within ULEZ

Nearest A&E

The Royal London Hospital

Coverage detail

Postcode coverage in Mile End

Mile End is split between two postcode districts. E1 covers the western half, taking in Queen Mary University of London's Mile End campus on Mile End Road, the Ocean Estate, Harford Street, Bancroft Road and Mile End Hospital, and it shades west into Stepney Green and Whitechapel. E3 covers the eastern half, including Mile End station itself, the Grove Road side of Mile End Park and everything running on towards Bow. The boundary sits broadly around the Burdett Road and Grove Road crossroads, which means two collisions a few hundred metres apart on the same road can carry different postcodes, and the far southern end of the Burdett Road corridor slips towards E14 as it approaches Limehouse. When you record a location, quote the nearest junction or a named building rather than relying on the postcode alone, because it is the junction that decides which authority holds the CCTV.

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Non-fault accident support in Mile End

Mile End sits in the middle of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, roughly four miles east of Charing Cross, wedged between Stepney and Whitechapel to the west, Bethnal Green to the north west, Bow to the east and Limehouse to the south. Its spine is the A11 Mile End Road, which picks up the name at Mile End Gate where Whitechapel Road ends and carries it east to the Burdett Road and Grove Road crossroads before continuing as Bow Road. Almost everything that defines the area hangs off that one line: Queen Mary University of London's Mile End campus on the north side, Mile End station sitting on the junction, Mile End Park running north to south either side of the main road and stitched back together by the Green Bridge, and the Regent's Canal threading through the park past Mile End Lock on its way down to Limehouse Basin. Mile End Hospital on Bancroft Road is a community hospital run by Barts Health and does not have an emergency department, which regularly catches people out after a collision. Housing is dense and mixed: Victorian terraces, large post-war estates including the Ocean Estate, purpose built student accommodation and newer canal-side blocks. The result is a compact area with heavy pedestrian and cycle movement, constant kerbside activity, and a road network carrying far more than it was ever laid out for.

The road environment is unusually layered for somewhere this small. The A11 through Mile End is a Transport for London red route, so TfL rather than the council is the highway authority along it, and it carries one-way Cycleway 2 tracks on both sides of the carriageway as part of the route between Aldgate and Bow, alongside bus lanes, frequent bus stops and a long run of side road and estate accesses. Its speed limit dropped from 30mph to 20mph on 31 March 2023, bringing the red route into line with the borough-wide 20mph limit Tower Hamlets already applied to its own streets. North to south, Burdett Road and Grove Road (the A1205) cross the A11 at the station and carry red route controls of their own, linking the A13 at Limehouse to Victoria Park and South Hackney. Cambridge Heath Road (A107) closes off the western end, and a mile east the A11 runs into Bow Interchange, where the A12 East Cross Route flies over a roundabout shared with Bow Road and Stratford High Street (A118). Two charging regimes sit over the top of all of it: the expanded ULEZ has covered every London borough since 29 August 2023, and the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels have both carried a user charge since Silvertown opened on 7 April 2025, which visibly changes how traffic behaves on the A12 approach at Bow.

What shapes non-fault claims in Mile End is the sheer mix of road users squeezed into that corridor. Private hire and minicab drivers working E1 and E3 share the same lanes as van and courier fleets serving the estates, the shops and the university, buses running nose to tail along the A11, thousands of students crossing on foot between campus buildings and the station, and one of London's busiest cycle routes running within inches of moving traffic. Collisions here are rarely open-road impacts at speed. They are turning conflicts, side road emergences, lane changes around stopped buses, reversing and loading manoeuvres and low-speed shunts in stationary queues, which is precisely the pattern that produces disputed liability and a damaged but still drivable vehicle. For a private hire or van driver, the loss that actually bites is not the bodywork, it is the days off the road. CityGrip Accident Claims works as an accident management company for non-fault car and van drivers across Mile End, arranging recovery, secure storage, a like-for-like replacement vehicle, engineer inspection, repair coordination and correspondence with the third party's insurer. Charges are kept low and set out in writing from the start, because every pound of avoidable cost is a pound that comes out of the claimant's settlement rather than out of someone else's margin.

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Traffic and road conditions in Mile End

Mile End Road itself is the busiest and most claim-heavy stretch in the area. It is wide and largely straight, with a central reservation for much of its length, bus lanes, loading bays and one-way cycle tracks on each side that traffic has to cross to reach any side road, estate entrance or vehicle access. That single design fact drives the most common patterns we see: left turning vehicles cutting across a cyclist travelling straight on, vehicles emerging from side roads into the cycle track before the driver's sightline reaches the main carriageway, and drivers pulling out of parking or loading bays into a bus lane occupied by faster traffic. Add the right turn and U-turn movements across the central reservation near the Green Bridge and the university entrances, and you have a corridor where two vehicles routinely end up occupying the same space with each driver convinced they had priority. Rear-end shunts are the other staple, generated by pedestrian crossings, buses stopping in lane and closely spaced signals, so a driver looking left for a gap catches the vehicle stopping in front. The damage is often modest, liability is often argued, and independent evidence usually decides it.

The junction of Mile End Road with Burdett Road and Grove Road, directly outside Mile End station, is the single most significant conflict point in the area. When TfL reviewed the layout it reported an above average level of collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists coming into conflict with turning vehicles, and its proposals were built around removing the slip roads, cutting crossing distances and numbers of crossings, and adding mandatory cycle lanes and advanced stop lines on the Mile End Road and Grove Road arms. The station entrance sits on the junction and serves the Central, District and Hammersmith and City lines, so pedestrian volumes are high through both peaks and late into the evening. South of the junction, Burdett Road drops under the Great Eastern main line viaduct and runs down to the A13 at Limehouse, which makes it a standing cut-through for drivers avoiding the A11. North of it, Grove Road forms the eastern boundary of Mile End Park and crosses the Regent's Canal near Mile End Lock before reaching Roman Road and the Old Ford Road (B118) roundabout. Both the canal bridge and the railway crossing are pinch points where the carriageway narrows, cycle provision thins out and a bus or a box van leaves very little room on either side.

East of Mile End the A11 becomes Bow Road and runs into Bow Interchange, a triple-level junction where the A12 East Cross Route flies over a roundabout shared with Bow Road and Stratford High Street (A118). It has a long and well documented record of cyclist casualties including fatalities, it became a focal point for cycle safety protests in London, and the recurring pattern involves left turning heavy goods vehicles crossing the line of Cycleway 2. Heavy goods traffic here is a hazard to plan around rather than a customer group, since CityGrip works with car and van drivers only. The A12 southbound also queues heavily towards the Blackwall Tunnel, and since the Silvertown Tunnel opened on 7 April 2025 both crossings have been charged between 6am and 10pm every day, so late route changes, hesitation on the approach and stop-start braking all feed low-speed shunts back up the interchange and along Bow Road. At the opposite end of the area, the Cambridge Heath Road (A107) junction where Whitechapel Road becomes Mile End Road brings its own mix of bus movements, market servicing, turning traffic and continuous pedestrian crossing demand in a very confined space.

MILE END

Section 3 of the walkthrough.

How we handle Mile End accident claims

Getting evidence in Mile End depends on asking the right authority quickly, because the road network is split between two of them. TfL is the highway authority for the A11 through Mile End and on into Bow Road, for the A12 at Bow Interchange, and for the red route lengths of Burdett Road and Grove Road, while the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is responsible for the residential and side streets: Bancroft Road, Harford Street, Mile End Place, the Ocean Estate roads and the turnings off Grove Road. That split matters most for footage. TfL's cameras on its own road network are operated primarily for traffic management and enforcement, and they do not necessarily hold a continuous recording that can simply be pulled after the event, so the borough system is very often the more productive first request. Tower Hamlets deletes its CCTV recordings after 30 days as a matter of routine, will only correspond with an insurer or a solicitor on a non-criminal traffic matter rather than with the driver directly, aims to confirm within about ten working days whether anything was captured, then preserves the clip for six months while the paperwork is completed, and charges a release fee (£125 plus VAT at the time of writing). Everything else runs on the same short clock: most private operators, shops, university buildings, bus operators and estate systems keep between 14 and 31 days, so preservation letters need to go out in the first few days, not the first month.

Reporting and logistics matter just as much as footage. If details were not exchanged at the scene, the driver has a legal duty under section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to report the collision to the police as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 24 hours, which can be done online or on 101; call 999 where anyone is injured, the carriageway is blocked, drink or drugs are suspected, or the other driver leaves. Policing here sits with the Metropolitan Police Central East BCU, which covers Hackney and Tower Hamlets, and the incident reference it generates is worth obtaining before any insurer correspondence begins. On the ground, Mile End punishes delay: a damaged vehicle left on the A11 is sitting on a red route with stopping restrictions, and one nudged onto a nearby borough street is sitting in a controlled parking zone collecting penalty charge notices. CityGrip arranges recovery from the scene to secure storage, an independent engineer inspection, repair through an approved bodyshop and a like-for-like replacement vehicle, including a private hire ready vehicle where a driver's licensing requires one, so income does not stop while liability is argued. Where anyone has been hurt, injury is not handled in house: with the customer's separate written consent the enquiry is referred to an authorised legal partner, and the accident management work continues alongside it.

Major roads and known hazards in Mile End

The road authority for each route is identified so the right disclosure request (borough council, Transport for London, the City of London Corporation or National Highways) can be filed inside the typical 14 to 31-day CCTV retention window.

Reference	Road / corridor	Notes
A11	Mile End Road (continuing as Bow Road)	The area's spine and a TfL red route, so TfL is the highway authority rather than the council. It runs from Mile End Gate at Cambridge Heath Road east to the Burdett Road and Grove Road crossroads, then on as Bow Road to Bow Interchange. It carries one-way Cycleway 2 tracks on both sides, bus lanes, loading bays, a central reservation and the Green Bridge over Mile End Park, and its limit was cut from 30mph to 20mph on 31 March 2023.
A1205	Burdett Road and Grove Road	The main north to south link, crossing the A11 immediately outside Mile End station and carrying red route controls. Grove Road runs north along the eastern edge of Mile End Park, over the Regent's Canal near Mile End Lock, to Roman Road, Old Ford Road and Victoria Park. Burdett Road runs south under the Great Eastern main line viaduct towards the A13 at Limehouse, making it a habitual cut-through when the A11 is blocked.
A107	Cambridge Heath Road	The western bookend of Mile End Road, meeting the A11 at Mile End Gate where Whitechapel Road changes name. It links Whitechapel north through Bethnal Green towards Hackney. Bus movements, market servicing traffic on the Whitechapel side and heavy pedestrian crossing demand make the turning movements here a recurring source of low-speed and turning-conflict damage.
A12	East Cross Route and Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach	A mile east of Mile End station, the A12 flies over Bow Interchange on the level above a roundabout shared with the A11 and the A118 Stratford High Street. It is the route to the Blackwall Tunnel, and since the Silvertown Tunnel opened on 7 April 2025 both crossings carry a charge from 6am to 10pm daily, which adds hesitation, late lane changes and queue-end shunts on the approach.
B118	Old Ford Road	A borough-managed road meeting Grove Road at a roundabout north of Mile End Park, near Victoria Park and the Roman Road shopping street. It is the local alternative to the A11 for east to west movement between Bethnal Green and Bow, and its narrower geometry, parked kerbs and side turnings generate a steady run of parking-manoeuvre and emerging-vehicle claims.

Known incident hotspots

Mile End Road junction with Burdett Road and Grove Road, outside Mile End station: TfL's own review of the layout found an above average level of collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists coming into conflict with turning vehicles, with slip roads and multi-lane approaches on every arm.
Bow Interchange, where the A11 Bow Road, the A12 East Cross Route and the A118 Stratford High Street meet: a roundabout beneath a flyover with a long record of cyclist casualties including fatalities, and a recurring pattern of left turning heavy goods vehicles crossing the line of Cycleway 2.
The Green Bridge stretch of Mile End Road through Mile End Park: park entrances, crossings and university access points on both sides, combined with right turn and U-turn movements across the central reservation, so through traffic meets turning traffic without much warning.
Grove Road where it crosses the Regent's Canal near Mile End Lock and passes the railway: the carriageway narrows, cycle provision thins out and a bus or a large van leaves very little clearance either side, producing mirror strikes and squeeze-through side impacts.
Burdett Road under the Great Eastern main line viaduct heading south towards the A13: reduced forward visibility, cut-through traffic avoiding the A11 and side road emergences into a road busier than its width suggests.
Mile End Gate, where Whitechapel Road becomes Mile End Road at Cambridge Heath Road (A107): concentrated bus movements, servicing and loading activity, and continuous pedestrian crossing demand across a confined and heavily signalised junction.

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Within ULEZ. Any replacement vehicle we arrange for you in Mile End will be ULEZ-compliant so you can continue travelling in and through the zone without penalty.

Speed limits

Mile End is effectively a 20mph area from end to end. Tower Hamlets has applied a 20mph limit across its borough roads since 2015, made permanent in 2016, so every residential street, estate road and side turning off Mile End Road is 20mph unless signed otherwise. The red route now matches it: TfL lowered the A11 Mile End Road and Bow Road from 30mph to 20mph on 31 March 2023, over the length between Whitechapel Road and Alameda Place, and a 20mph limit was also brought in on Burdett Road as part of its safety works. The one nearby corridor where limits step up is the A12 East Cross Route at Bow Interchange, which is signed higher, so read the signs on the approach rather than assuming. Speed is rarely the headline issue in local claims, but a 20mph limit does change what counts as a reasonable stopping distance and observation standard when liability is argued.

Evidence and disclosure timeline in Mile End

CCTV, signal data and bus footage from a Mile End collision are subject to retention windows that typically run between 14 and 31 days. After that the footage is overwritten and unavailable. The first 72 hours are disproportionately important.

0hMake the scene safe, exchange details, photograph the road layout, call 999 if anyone is injured. The Road Traffic Act 1988 duty to give details applies at the scene.
1hOpen the claim with us. We dispatch recovery to Mile End and start drafting the disclosure requests to the correct highway authority.
24hIf reportable, file with the Metropolitan Police via the MPS Collision Reporting Service online. Quote the reference in all insurer correspondence.
72hCCTV disclosure request lodged with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Information Governance team and, where relevant, TfL and National Highways.
14-31dStandard CCTV retention window. After this, footage is routinely overwritten unless preserved on an open disclosure request. We track the retention window for every claim from intake.

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Frequently asked questions

My car was hit on Mile End Road and it was not my fault. What should I do first?: Stop, make the scene safe and exchange names, addresses, vehicle registrations and insurer details. If the other driver refuses, cannot be identified or leaves, you have a legal duty under section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to report it to the police as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 24 hours, using the Metropolitan Police online report or 101; dial 999 if anyone is injured, the carriageway is blocked or drink or drugs are suspected. Photograph the vehicles in position, the damage on both cars, the road markings and the cycle track and lane layout, and note the exact junction, because on the A11 that decides who holds the CCTV. Ask nearby shops, the university buildings or the estate office whether their cameras cover the spot, since most systems overwrite within 14 to 31 days. Then call CityGrip. As an accident management company we can arrange recovery, secure storage, a like-for-like replacement vehicle, an engineer inspection and repair, and deal with the third party's insurer for you. We do not handle injury claims in house: if anyone was hurt, we refer that part to an authorised legal partner only with your separate written consent.
Who holds the CCTV of a collision at the Mile End Road and Burdett Road junction?: It depends on exactly where the impact happened, because that junction sits on the boundary between two highway authorities. The A11 Mile End Road is a Transport for London red route, and Burdett Road and Grove Road carry red route controls, so TfL is the relevant body for the main carriageway; the residential streets running off it are the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. In practice the borough system is often the better first request, because TfL's cameras on its road network are run mainly for traffic management and enforcement and do not necessarily retain a continuous recording that can be pulled afterwards. Tower Hamlets deletes its recordings after 30 days as standard and will only deal with an insurer or a solicitor on a non-criminal traffic matter, not with the driver directly. Its process is to confirm within about ten working days whether anything was captured, hold it for six months once flagged, then release it against signed paperwork and a fee (£125 plus VAT at the time of writing). Because the window is short, CityGrip sends preservation requests to the authority and to nearby private operators in the first days after instruction rather than waiting for liability to be argued.
I drive private hire in E1 and E3. Can I get a replacement vehicle while mine is repaired?: Yes. If you were not at fault, CityGrip can arrange a like-for-like replacement vehicle so you keep working while your own car is off the road, and where your licensing requires a private hire ready vehicle we source one that meets that requirement rather than handing you something you cannot legally use for hire and reward. It will also be ULEZ compliant, which matters because the expanded ULEZ has covered every London borough since 29 August 2023 and Mile End sits well inside it. We arrange recovery from the scene, secure storage rather than leaving your vehicle on a red route or in a controlled parking zone collecting penalty charge notices, an independent engineer inspection, repair through an approved bodyshop and all correspondence with the third party's insurer. We work with car and van drivers, including private hire, PCO and minicab drivers; we do not take on HGV, lorry, bus, coach or hackney carriage work. Our fees are deliberately low and confirmed in writing up front, because inflated charges come straight out of what a claimant ends up with.
Where is the nearest A&E to Mile End, and does Mile End Hospital have one?: The nearest full 24-hour blue-light A&E is The Royal London Hospital on Whitechapel Road, E1 1FR, roughly a mile west of Mile End station along the A11. It runs a 24/7 consultant-led adult emergency department with a separate children's emergency department, and it is one of London's major trauma centres and the daytime base for London's Air Ambulance. Mile End Hospital on Bancroft Road, despite the name and its position in the middle of the area, is a Barts Health community hospital providing outpatient and community services and has no emergency department, so do not head there after a collision. Newham University Hospital (E13 8SL), Homerton University Hospital (E9 6SR) and Whipps Cross (E11 1NR) all have emergency departments too, but from Mile End they are further out than The Royal London. Call 999 for anything serious. If you or a passenger were injured, CityGrip does not handle injury claims in house: with your separate written consent we refer that element to an authorised legal partner while we carry on with recovery, storage, replacement vehicle and repair.
Do the ULEZ, the Congestion Charge and the new tunnel charges affect a non-fault claim in Mile End?: They do not change who is liable for a collision, but they change the practical picture around it. Mile End sits inside the expanded ULEZ, which has covered every London borough since 29 August 2023, so any replacement vehicle we provide has to be compliant or you inherit a daily charge. Mile End is outside the Congestion Charge zone, whose eastern boundary runs along Commercial Street and Mansell Street, but a westbound run into the City crosses into it and the daily charge rose to £18 from January 2026, with private hire vehicles no longer exempt. To the east, the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels have both carried a user charge from 6am to 10pm every day since Silvertown opened on 7 April 2025, which is one reason the A12 approach at Bow generates queue-end shunts as drivers hesitate or change route late. When CityGrip puts a claim together we account for the charges and running costs your vehicle would genuinely have incurred, and we make sure the replacement you are given can actually be driven and worked in this part of London without picking up avoidable penalties.

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Liability for any road traffic collision remains subject to the at-fault driver's insurer's assessment and the available evidence. Replacement vehicle, credit hire, recovery, storage and repair support are subject to eligibility, the evidential record and reasonable need. We do not provide legal advice. Personal injury enquiries are referred only with your separate written consent to authorised legal or regulated partners. Information on this page about postcode coverage, road authority, ULEZ applicability and hospital trusts is provided as general guidance and does not constitute legal, regulatory or insurance advice.

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