A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 September 2015 at 17:18 involving a Mercedes C Class
A motorcycle and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 17:18 on Tuesday 22 September 2015. The 45-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2015
- Tuesday, 17:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5141, longitude -0.05328, 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
- 201501HT20857
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 2014.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20251
Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 10 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT67181
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HD00019
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 24 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HD0291
Slight
Honda Insight crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 22 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT21199
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 23 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501HD00080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 201501HT20857 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.