A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 June 2012 at 09:08 involving a Scania lorry
A Scania lorry and a Honda Pes 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 09:08 on Friday 22 June 2012. The 50-year-old male driver of the Scania lorry 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
- 22 Jun 2012
- Friday, 09:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Scania and Honda Pes 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5128, longitude -0.00042, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20384
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1268
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 2017.
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Smart City crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 15 August 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010054265
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Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 8 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401HH00053
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Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 5 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0326
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Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 January 2019
2 m awayRef 2019010159699
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Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 22 November 2019
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Volkswagen UP crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 3 February 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010358420
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,021 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Pes 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Scania)
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 201201HT20384 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.