Serious A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 May 2016 at 11:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 11:00 on Thursday 12 May 2016. The 48-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 May 2016
- Thursday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50842, longitude -0.07224, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20461
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 1992.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 25 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HD00222
Slight
ERF crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 13 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HT00643
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 23 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT74652
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 29 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20885
Slight
Honda CG125 crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT68631
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199401HD00206
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201601HT20461 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.