A1261 crash in Tower Hamlets on 29 June 2013 at 14:30 involving a Volkswagen Bora
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Bora were involved in a crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets at 14:30 on Saturday 29 June 2013. The 51-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jun 2013
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Bora
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51089, longitude 0.00079, in the E14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackwall & Cubitt Town, Tower Hamlets, E14 2DT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301HT20496
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1261
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1268
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2000.
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the A1268 in Tower Hamlets, 23 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00236
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A1020 in Tower Hamlets, 13 October 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010273704
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 21 November 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010544889
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A1020 in Tower Hamlets, 17 May 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010307972
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 20 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199901HT02100
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A1261 in Tower Hamlets, 15 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT20214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 51, 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 201301HT20496 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.