B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 July 2012 at 01:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 01:20 on Thursday 5 July 2012. The 22-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 01:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52822, longitude -0.07313, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hackney, N1 6RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20459
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 26 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20520
Serious
Peugeot RCZ crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 2 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010613071
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 20 September 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010467233
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 6 September 2023
17 m awayRef 2023010464484
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 19 June 2018
20 m awayRef 2018010115361
Slight
Honda crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 10 December 1999
20 m awayRef 199901HT02172
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 201201HT20459 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.