A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 July 1997 at 17:40 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 17:40 on Saturday 12 July 1997. The 9-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 1997
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51338, longitude -0.04813, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701HT00346
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2001.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT01258
Slight
Scania crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 1 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00538
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 13 April 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010175028
Slight
Yamaha X crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 10 April 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010370199
Serious
Bus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198601HD00406
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 16 February 2006
10 m awayRef 200601TC00057
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 9, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 199701HT00346 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 1997.