A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 May 1998 at 11:37 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 11:37 on Tuesday 12 May 1998. A 28-year-old male pedestrian 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 May 1998
- Tuesday, 11:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52313, longitude -0.03949, 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
- 199801HT00248
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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 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 17 October 2018.
Slight
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At the same spotRef 2018010139696
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 12 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HH00431
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 29 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00291
Slight
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 29 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20690
Slight
Taxi crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 24 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0117
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HD00060
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199801HT00248 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.