B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 September 2001 at 08:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 08:50 on Friday 7 September 2001. The 27-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2001
- Friday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52938, longitude -0.0454, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green East, Tower Hamlets, E2 0FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT00985
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 24 April 1990.
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 24 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00090
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 28 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00216
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 31 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20889
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 31 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00628
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 8 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001HT00932
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 16 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200301HT00679
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 2 (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 200101HT00985 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 2001.