A1208 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 May 2013 at 19:35 involving a Volkswagen Caddy van
A Volkswagen Caddy van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets at 19:35 on Wednesday 22 May 2013. The 38-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
- 22 May 2013
- Wednesday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Caddy and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53156, longitude -0.06275, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301HT20345
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 16 June 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20489
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 1 April 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010299436
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 4 December 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010613486
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 7 April 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010173812
Serious
Toyota MR2 crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 9 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199501HB00091
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 10 February 2014
10 m awayRef 201401GD10131
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 38, on vehicle 2 (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 201301HT20345 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 2013.