A12 crash in Tower Hamlets on 25 October 2015 at 18:34 involving a Honda SH125 motorcycle
A Honda SH125 motorcycle and a Toyota Verso were involved in a crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets at 18:34 on Sunday 25 October 2015. The 52-year-old male rider of the Honda SH125 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
- 25 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 18:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda SH125 and Toyota Verso
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5277, longitude -0.0119, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 3DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20971
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2007.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 26 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT20151
Serious
Renault Kangoo crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 14 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20380
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 16 June 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010580833
Slight
Honda NSS crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 9 September 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010399098
Slight
Car crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 18 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HH00214
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 26 December 2002
14 m awayRef 200201HT09001
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda SH125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Verso
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda SH125)
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 201501HT20971 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.