A1208 crash in Tower Hamlets on 1 October 2013 at 08:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets at 08:15 on Tuesday 1 October 2013. The 25-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 2013
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53095, longitude -0.06955, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney. 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
- 201301HT20745
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1208
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2017.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 6 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010016456
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 23 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101GD00874
Slight
Car crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101GD10591
Slight
Bus crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 13 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901GH00031
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 28 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201401GD10796
Slight
Leyland crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 13 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00174
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 201301HT20745 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.