A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 13 December 2008 at 21:40 involving a Honda ANF125 motorcycle
A Honda ANF125 motorcycle and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 21:40 on Saturday 13 December 2008. The 22-year-old male rider of the Honda ANF125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda ANF125 and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51749, longitude -0.06594, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801HT76576
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 6 October 1997.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 6 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HT00498
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 7 January 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010229250
Slight
Hyundai Ioniq crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 30 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010589600
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010523710
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 21 December 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010228737
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT20167
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda ANF125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda ANF125)
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 200801HT76576 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.