B134 crash in Tower Hamlets on 14 November 1997 at 07:50 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a Dennis were involved in a crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets at 07:50 on Friday 14 November 1997. The 42-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1997
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51944, longitude -0.07194, 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
- 199701HT00583
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2016.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 13 March 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20377
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 10 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00542
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 22 February 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20149
Serious
Car crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 7 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199801HT00070
Slight
MG 5 crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 2023
13 m awayRef 2023010453365
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 24 September 2016
14 m awayRef 2016010012519
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 583 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Dennis
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 199701HT00583 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.