A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 2 June 2002 at 09:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 09:55 on Sunday 2 June 2002. The 38-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jun 2002
- Sunday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50888, longitude -0.02423, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201HT00463
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1203
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2015.
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 13 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20152
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B123 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010341588
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 14 September 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010132640
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B123 in Tower Hamlets, 13 January 1990
10 m awayRef 199001HH00013
Serious
Car crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 27 January 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010014710
Slight
Suzuki VL 125 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 19 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200101HT01215
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 650 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200201HT00463 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 2002.