A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 6 July 2006 at 07:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 07:50 on Thursday 6 July 2006. The 39-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2006
- Thursday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50916, longitude -0.00318, 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
- 200601HT20379
- 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
- 70 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 1999.
Slight
Yamaha XJ 600 S Diversion crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 11 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00039
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 17 June 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010388907
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 30 October 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010606657
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 2021
14 m awayRef 2021010323068
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 3 September 2016
14 m awayRef 2016010013183
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 12 January 2015
14 m awayRef 201501HT20053
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200601HT20379 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.