A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 November 2019 at 08:03 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A Piaggio Vespa motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 08:03 on Tuesday 12 November 2019. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2019
- Tuesday, 08:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51093, longitude -0.01777, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010217792
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2014.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 11 June 2014
4 m awayRef 201401HT20506
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 23 June 2008
4 m awayRef 200801HT73277
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 6 March 1999
4 m awayRef 199901HT00258
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 24 November 2010
4 m awayRef 201001HT20895
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 24 December 2015
4 m awayRef 201501HT29006
Slight
Lexus IS 250 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 5 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010608331
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Piaggio Vespa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019010217792 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.