A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 June 2006 at 22:15 involving a Citroen Berlingo van
A Citroen Berlingo van and a Honda CG125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 22:15 on Monday 5 June 2006. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda CG125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2006
- Monday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and Honda CG125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51297, longitude 0.00016, 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
- 200601HT20290
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 April 2013.
Serious
Peugeot Bipper crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 25 April 2013
At the same spotRef 201301KF60232
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 30 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HH00238
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 16 April 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20195
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 14 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00401
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 2 July 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010317091
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010589041
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CG125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CG125)
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 200601HT20290 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 2006.