Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 September 2007 at 17:45 involving a Honda CB600F motorcycle
A Honda CB600F motorcycle and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 17:45 on Wednesday 5 September 2007. A 36-year-old male passenger on the Honda CB600F motorcycle and the 33-year-old male rider of the Honda CB600F motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Sep 2007
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CB600F and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52059, longitude -0.05212, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701HT67062
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- C
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2008.
Slight
Lexus IS250 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 27 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT75429
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 1 May 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HB00092
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 6 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT01061
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 10 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TC00231
Serious
Honda crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT02052
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 3 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00053
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB600F)
Casualty 2: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB600F)
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 200701HT67062 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 2007.