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A100 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 April 1998 at 10:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A100 in Tower Hamlets at 10:40 on Sunday 5 April 1998. The female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity
Slight
Date
5 Apr 1998
Sunday, 10:40
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50986, longitude -0.0745, in the EC3N 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
199801CP00054
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
100
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

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 21 December 2005.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to go ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Female, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 199801CP00054 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 1998.