A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 31 July 2016 at 20:46 involving a Mazda 6
A bicycle and a Mazda 6 were involved in a crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 20:46 on Sunday 31 July 2016. The 53-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2016
- Sunday, 20:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48876, longitude -0.02006, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Evelyn, Lewisham, SE8 3JF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601HT20707
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 9 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20011
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 24 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20127
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 1 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HH00330
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 21 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT09043
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 11 April 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20242
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 9 July 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010387422
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 6
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,183 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 53, on vehicle 1 (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 201601HT20707 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.