B122 crash in Tower Hamlets on 31 January 1996 at 09:15 involving a Proton Proton
A Proton Proton and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets at 09:15 on Wednesday 31 January 1996. The 31-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 1996
- Wednesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Proton Proton and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52479, longitude -0.07445, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601HT00036
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 122
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2021.
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 18 June 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010314555
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010444711
Slight
Car crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 3 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HB00169
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010128802
Slight
Car crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 10 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HB00189
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B122 in Tower Hamlets, 11 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HT00640
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 199601HT00036 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 1996.