A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 February 2018 at 15:15 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 15:15 on Monday 19 February 2018. The 32-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle and the 40-year-old male driver of the Nissan Note were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 2018
- Monday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR 1000 and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5179, longitude -0.0652, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010091254
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 30 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT01040
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 28 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT75912
Slight
Yamaha YP 125 R crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 29 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200601HT20807
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 10 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00172
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 22 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200701HT20183
Slight
Honda C90 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 28 February 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HB00051
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Note)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010091254 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 2018.