A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 August 2015 at 13:25 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 13:25 on Wednesday 5 August 2015. 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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2015
- Wednesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51713, longitude -0.07348, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spitalfields & Banglatown, Tower Hamlets, E1 6RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20709
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2005.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 28 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20918
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 7 September 2020
2 m awayRef 2020010268075
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 17 February 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010360946
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 27 July 2012
10 m awayRef 201201HT20566
Slight
Yamaha FZ6 crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 9 October 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT20902
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 15 June 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT20550
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- 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
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- 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 201501HT20709 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.