B108 crash in Tower Hamlets on 26 January 2004 at 18:05 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B108 in Tower Hamlets at 18:05 on Monday 26 January 2004. A 65-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 26 Jan 2004
- Monday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52106, longitude -0.06421, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spitalfields & Banglatown, Tower Hamlets, E1 6RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401HT00073
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 108
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 March 2014.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 3 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20174
Serious
Daihatsu Charmant crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 2 April 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HB00064
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00795
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 12 December 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT21044
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 4 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20099
Slight
Citroen Nemo crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 14 October 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200401HT00073 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 2004.