A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 18 April 2018 at 19:15 involving an Audi R8
A bicycle and an Audi R8 were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 19:15 on Wednesday 18 April 2018. The 27-year-old male cyclist 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
- 18 Apr 2018
- Wednesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Audi R8
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51965, longitude -0.05734, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010102709
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 23 July 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 23 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HT00359
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 8 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HD0168
Serious
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 19 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20842
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 26 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HT00114
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 November 2019
6 m awayRef 2019010217681
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 4 April 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010568013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi R8
Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 5,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 27, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 2018010102709 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.