Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 1 March 2005 at 22:25 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 22:25 on Tuesday 1 March 2005. The 22-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Mar 2005
- Tuesday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5279, longitude -0.02124, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501HT20158
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 11
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 13 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HH0162
Slight
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HH0317
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 22 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00195
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 16 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HH00591
Slight
NIU Nqi crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 3 March 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010562158
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 November 2019
6 m awayRef 2019010215685
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 22, 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 200501HT20158 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 2005.