B108 crash in Tower Hamlets on 6 September 2019 at 14:10 involving a Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle
A Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets at 14:10 on Friday 6 September 2019. The 32-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2019
- Friday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125EX2 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51169, longitude -0.06107, 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
- 2019010203754
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 108
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 9 May 2021.
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 9 May 2021
2 m awayRef 2021010306378
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 14 June 1999
6 m awayRef 199901HT00593
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 14 August 2009
9 m awayRef 200901HT20485
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 26 March 1992
9 m awayRef 199201HH00116
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 6 November 2013
9 m awayRef 201301HT20897
Slight
Car crash on the B108 in Tower Hamlets, 24 January 2010
9 m awayRef 201001HT20036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125EX2
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), 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 2019010203754 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.