B142 crash in Tower Hamlets on 29 September 2012 at 11:30 involving a Honda SH125 motorcycle
A Honda SH125 motorcycle and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets at 11:30 on Saturday 29 September 2012. The 49-year-old male rider of the Honda SH125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2012
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda SH125 and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53034, longitude -0.02186, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201HT20817
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 142
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2021.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 8 April 2021
10 m awayRef 2021010301103
Slight
Van crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 1 September 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HH0369
Slight
Bus crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 9 June 1996
14 m awayRef 199601HH00223
Fatal
Alexander Dennis crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 13 August 2022
19 m awayRef 2022010393856
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 15 September 2000
22 m awayRef 200001HT00872
Slight
Taxi crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 18 September 1999
36 m awayRef 199901HT00980
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda SH125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda SH125)
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 201201HT20817 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.