A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 December 2013 at 20:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 20:50 on Friday 20 December 2013. The 58-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2013
- Friday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52498, longitude -0.03492, 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 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301HT21049
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 1205
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 18 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20723
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 15 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200601HT20286
Serious
Skoda Yeti crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 22 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20737
Serious
Porsche 911 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 17 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TC00052
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 15 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200901TC00119
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 16 June 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20352
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 58, 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 201301HT21049 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.