Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 5 July 2009 at 18:45 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A motorcycle and a Mercedes CLK Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 18:45 on Sunday 5 July 2009. The 53-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a female passenger on the motorcycle were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2009
- Sunday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52629, longitude -0.0167, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT20359
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 28 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HH0025
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 27 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0365
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 4 April 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0136
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 6 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00430
Slight
Dacia Duster crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 19 June 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010581528
Slight
Van crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 17 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HH00024
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200901HT20359 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 2009.