A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 December 1999 at 09:00 involving a Piaggio motorcycle
A Piaggio motorcycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 09:00 on Friday 24 December 1999. The 30-year-old male rider of the Piaggio motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1999
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50532, longitude -0.02611, in the E14 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
- 199901HT01226
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1206
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2007.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 6 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT66893
Slight
Honda Insight crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 1 February 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20065
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 27 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010583260
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 25 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001HT00991
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 9 April 2013
10 m awayRef 201301HT20223
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 4 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT02149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio)
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 199901HT01226 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 1999.