A115 crash in Tower Hamlets on 29 September 2005 at 15:03 involving a Honda CBF500 motorcycle
A lorry and a Honda CBF500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets at 15:03 on Thursday 29 September 2005. The 47-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2005
- Thursday, 15:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Honda CBF500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54257, longitude -0.02738, in the E9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hackney Wick, Hackney, E9 5TL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501HT20685
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 115
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 115
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1996.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 13 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HH00298
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 30 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201001GD10343
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 20 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT20100
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 16 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20013
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 14 May 2014
At the same spotRef 201401GD10395
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A115 in Tower Hamlets, 5 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010578857
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF500
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF500)
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 200501HT20685 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.