A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 September 2011 at 21:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 21:50 on Monday 5 September 2011. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2011
- Monday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52326, longitude -0.03442, 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 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201101HT20607
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2014.
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Ford Focus crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 26 March 2007
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Fiat Punto crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 13 March 2015
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Fiat Doblo crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 1 October 2013
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc to 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 201101HT20607 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 2011.