Serious C road crash in Tower Hamlets E1 on 6 October 2018 at 12:32 involving a Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle
A Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle crashed on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 12:32 on Saturday 6 October 2018. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Oct 2018
- Saturday, 12:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda WW125EX2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52152, longitude -0.0453, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010137240
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2023.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125EX2
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 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
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125EX2)
- 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 2018010137240 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.