A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 April 2016 at 17:05 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van and a Honda CBF125M motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 17:05 on Thursday 21 April 2016. The 25-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF125M 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
- 21 Apr 2016
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Custom and Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5088, longitude -0.07323, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE1 2LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20328
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1203
- 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 7 March 2008.
Slight
Honda CB600F crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 7 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT70044
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 14 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00201
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 1 April 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010105262
Slight
Car crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 16 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00820
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 20 December 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT29027
Slight
Honda crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 24 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00205
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF125M
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF125M)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 201601HT20328 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 2016.