A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 8 July 2014 at 08:21 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 08:21 on Tuesday 8 July 2014. 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
- 8 Jul 2014
- Tuesday, 08:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51465, longitude -0.06232, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT20598
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 25 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00731
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HD0305
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 7 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00131
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 10 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401HD00074
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 13 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200301HT00205
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 10 May 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20405
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- 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 201401HT20598 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 2014.