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A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 August 2019 at 09:05 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 09:05 on Thursday 22 August 2019. The 38-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Aug 2019
Thursday, 09:05
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51083, longitude -0.06854, 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
2019010200866
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police
Police attended the scene
No, reported using a self completion form

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
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
B
Second road number
126

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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1998.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Commuting to or from work
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    30 to 40% least deprived

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver home area deprivation
    30 to 40% most deprived

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 38, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

    Home area deprivation
    30 to 40% least 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 2019010200866 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.