A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 January 2003 at 13:27 involving an Alfa Romeo
An Alfa Romeo and a Honda CBR600F motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 13:27 on Sunday 12 January 2003. The 28-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR600F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2003
- Sunday, 13:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alfa Romeo and Honda CBR600F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50726, longitude -0.00787, 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 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301HT00032
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1261
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1206
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 28 January 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 28 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301HT00126
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Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 16 September 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00955
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DAF Trucks crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 22 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT76516
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Honda CBF500 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 21 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT73787
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Toyota Prius crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 27 November 2022
1 m awayRef 2022010413053
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Honda WW125 crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 12 December 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010349781
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,747 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR600F
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR600F)
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 200301HT00032 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 2003.