A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 May 2004 at 14:30 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 14:30 on Friday 7 May 2004. The 24-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 May 2004
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Speedfight and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50951, longitude -0.00302, 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
- 200401HT00277
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 26 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT21117
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 13 November 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010069775
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 27 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010050858
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 10 February 2020
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Serious
Yamaha Tracer crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 27 August 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010201852
Serious
BMW M4 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 28 March 2023
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 100 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 200401HT00277 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.