A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 December 2015 at 17:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 17:10 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. The 30-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52696, longitude -0.02621, 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 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT21210
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2016.
Slight
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 23 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20571
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Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 8 March 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20151
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 27 June 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20439
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 6 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200601HT20619
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 22 October 2023
3 m awayRef 2023010473471
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 17 October 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010405117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 30, 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 201501HT21210 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.