A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 February 2012 at 15:21 involving a Jeep Cherokee
A bicycle and a Jeep Cherokee were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 15:21 on Friday 24 February 2012. The 36-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
- 24 Feb 2012
- Friday, 15:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Jeep Cherokee
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51086, longitude -0.01852, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20099
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 17 December 1992.
Fatal
Ford Orion crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 17 December 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HH00537
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 17 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00326
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 6 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT02174
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 27 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301HT09038
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 1 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00314
Serious
Datsun Cherry crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 9 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HH00007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,960 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 36, 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 201201HT20099 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 2012.