A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 December 2001 at 23:55 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 23:55 on Friday 21 December 2001. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2001
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50861, longitude -0.07252, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE1 2LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101HT09066
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1203
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 18 February 1990.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 18 February 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HD00052
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 10 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HD00078
Slight
Kawasaki KLE650 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 17 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20179
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT73836
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 10 May 2019
10 m awayRef 2019010180041
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 13 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200201HT00914
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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200101HT09066 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.