A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 6 April 2019 at 19:35 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 19:35 on Saturday 6 April 2019. The 47-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2019
- Saturday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51221, longitude -0.06933, 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
- 2019010173743
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 139
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2017.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B139 in Tower Hamlets, 4 August 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010052148
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 3 March 2020
11 m awayRef 2020010239726
Slight
Van crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 29 August 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010594379
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 12 December 1993
14 m awayRef 199301HD00299
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 5 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199401HD00183
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 27 November 2007
14 m awayRef 200701HT68097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 47, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2019010173743 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 2019.