A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 February 2015 at 18:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 18:40 on Thursday 5 February 2015. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2015
- Thursday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52081, longitude -0.05112, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20096
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 26 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HB0021
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 24 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00066
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 12 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20824
Serious
Lexmoto Diablo crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 14 November 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010410357
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 21 June 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010450603
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 3 August 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010260061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by 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 201501HT20096 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 2015.