B120 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 July 2002 at 14:40 involving a Piaggio NRG motorcycle
A Piaggio NRG motorcycle and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets at 14:40 on Sunday 28 July 2002. The 30-year-old male rider of the Piaggio NRG motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2002
- Sunday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio NRG and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52413, longitude -0.04836, in the E1 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, E1 4HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201HT00624
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 120
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2020.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010240305
Slight
Lorry crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 12 March 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HB0060
Slight
Car crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010HB0267
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 8 May 2024
11 m awayRef 2024010509277
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 15 October 2020
14 m awayRef 2020010274000
Slight
Van crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 26 January 1991
14 m awayRef 199101HB00015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio NRG
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio NRG)
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 200201HT00624 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.