B125 crash in Tower Hamlets on 6 December 2014 at 18:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B125 in Tower Hamlets at 18:30 on Saturday 6 December 2014. The male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51495, longitude -0.00566, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT29093
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 125
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 2002.
Slight
Daihatsu HI-Jet crash on the B125 in Tower Hamlets, 24 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00500
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the B125 in Tower Hamlets, 20 November 2016
14 m awayRef 2016010005163
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B125 in Tower Hamlets, 3 June 2001
14 m awayRef 200101HT00634
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B125 in Tower Hamlets, 1 November 2020
14 m awayRef 2020010276965
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B125 in Tower Hamlets, 18 May 1995
22 m awayRef 199501HH00192
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B125 in Tower Hamlets, 20 March 1995
22 m awayRef 199501HH00107
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201401HT29093 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.