A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 February 2003 at 08:25 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 08:25 on Wednesday 5 February 2003. The 30-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2003
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5253, longitude -0.07066, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weavers, Tower Hamlets, E2 7LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301HT00242
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1209
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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 6 July 2017.
Slight
Honda WW125EX2 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 6 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010047149
Slight
Dennis crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 26 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20369
Slight
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 23 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HB0044
Serious
Car crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 18 November 2021
At the same spotRef 2021010344701
Slight
Volkswagen ID3 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 10 July 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010585850
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 7 May 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010306009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 30, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200301HT00242 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.