A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 8 September 2007 at 15:35 involving a Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 15:35 on Saturday 8 September 2007. The 19-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX400 motorcycle 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
- 8 Sep 2007
- Saturday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX400 and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51634, longitude -0.02938, 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 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701HT67177
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1205
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 20 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00156
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 11 August 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010HH0337
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 3 December 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HH00595
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HH00348
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199201HH00418
Serious
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 1987
14 m awayRef 198701HH00434
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX400
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX400)
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 200701HT67177 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.