A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 August 2003 at 14:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 14:30 on Tuesday 12 August 2003. The 55-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2003
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52412, longitude -0.03741, 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, E2 0FA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301HT00638
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual 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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 17 March 2025.
Serious
Yamaha GPD crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 17 March 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010564352
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 8 March 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010364237
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 31 May 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010310546
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 15 April 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010370996
Serious
Honda WW125EX2 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 13 April 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010244962
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 14 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199701HT00579
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 55, on vehicle 1 (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 200301HT00638 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.