Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E1 on 28 October 2009 at 09:31 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 09:31 on Wednesday 28 October 2009. The 28-year-old female cyclist was 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
- 28 Oct 2009
- Wednesday, 09:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51082, longitude -0.05383, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, E1W 3EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT20660
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- B
- Second road number
- 126
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2016.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 22 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20043
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 16 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20828
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 9 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00174
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 21 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20524
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 15 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20152
Slight
Toyota BZ4X crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010591099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 28, on vehicle 2 (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 200901HT20660 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.