A1208 crash in Tower Hamlets on 2 July 2012 at 15:36 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Honda C90 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets at 15:36 on Monday 2 July 2012. The 18-year-old male rider of the Honda C90 motorcycle 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
- 2 Jul 2012
- Monday, 15:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Honda C90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5318, longitude -0.06116, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green West, Tower Hamlets, E2 0BA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20467
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1208
- 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
- C
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 September 2015.
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 19 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20875
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 23 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT21003
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 22 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20086
Slight
Triumph Daytona 600 crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20698
Slight
Taxi crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 28 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010GH0706
Slight
Ford Streetka crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 11 September 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010058359
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Honda C90
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda C90)
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 201201HT20467 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.