A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 November 2013 at 17:35 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 17:35 on Wednesday 20 November 2013. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2013
- Wednesday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51762, longitude -0.07387, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spitalfields & Banglatown, Tower Hamlets, E1 6RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301HT20930
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 17 December 2008.
Slight
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 17 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT76558
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 21 November 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010280551
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 8 November 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010608247
Slight
Van crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 7 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200201HT00877
Slight
Honda crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 10 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199401HB00060
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 29 May 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010111200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R125)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201301HT20930 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.