B126 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 November 2008 at 18:15 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Touran were involved in a crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets at 18:15 on Thursday 20 November 2008. The 39-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2008
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51161, longitude -0.04212, in the E1W 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801HT75819
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 126
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 145
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2017.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B145 in Tower Hamlets, 15 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010078210
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20926
Slight
Car crash on the B145 in Tower Hamlets, 22 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20755
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 7 November 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010342406
Slight
Yamaha NXC crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010390538
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 8 July 2021
5 m awayRef 2021010318236
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 39, 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 200801HT75819 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 2008.