Serious A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 December 2005 at 21:04 involving a Honda NT650V motorcycle
A Honda NT650V motorcycle and a van were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 21:04 on Saturday 24 December 2005. The 33-year-old male rider of the Honda NT650V motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 21:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda NT650V and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51118, longitude -0.0113, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501HT20915
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2011.
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Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 12 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HH00220
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Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 4 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198501HH00009
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Toyota Avensis crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 18 April 2011
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 13 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HH00380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda NT650V
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 647 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda NT650V)
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 200501HT20915 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.