Serious A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 December 2001 at 20:28 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 20:28 on Wednesday 5 December 2001. The 48-year-old male rider was seriously injured and a 24-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Dec 2001
- Wednesday, 20:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51016, longitude -0.06842, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT01248
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 29 December 1992.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 29 December 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HD00350
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 18 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HT00136
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 29 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HD0031
Slight
Van crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 20 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HD00215
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 31 August 2013
14 m awayRef 201301HT20630
Slight
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29 m awayRef 2024010538641
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 125cc), 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 200101HT01248 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.