A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 September 2006 at 12:20 involving a Ford Galaxy
A bicycle and a Ford Galaxy were involved in a crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 12:20 on Sunday 10 September 2006. The 21-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Sep 2006
- Sunday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52495, longitude -0.07125, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weavers, Tower Hamlets, E2 7LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601HT20508
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1209
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 October 2005.
Serious
Mazda 6 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 23 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20719
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 28 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00508
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010132400
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 11 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00031
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 26 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010582909
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010602852
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 21, on vehicle 1 (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 200601HT20508 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.