A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 June 2012 at 20:10 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 20:10 on Tuesday 12 June 2012. The 33-year-old male 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
- 12 Jun 2012
- Tuesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51602, longitude -0.06961, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20393
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 134
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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2011.
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 May 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20310
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B134 in Tower Hamlets, 4 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00487
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 29 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20515
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 28 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00393
Serious
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 24 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TA00585
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HT00560
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 201201HT20393 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.