B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 2 June 2015 at 19:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 19:30 on Tuesday 2 June 2015. The 38-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 2 Jun 2015
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53313, longitude -0.02955, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bow East, Tower Hamlets, E3 2RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20498
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 1991.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 9 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HH00264
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 1 June 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00227
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 4 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HH00409
Slight
Bus crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 25 March 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00106
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 1990
14 m awayRef 199001HH00351
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 26 November 1999
14 m awayRef 199901HT02130
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 201501HT20498 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.