A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 29 December 2019 at 06:00 involving a Peugeot Tweet 125 motorcycle
A Peugeot Tweet 125 motorcycle crashed on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 06:00 on Sunday 29 December 2019. The 31-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2019
- Sunday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Tweet 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51122, longitude -0.01229, 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
- 2019010227607
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 2002.
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 15 April 2002
4 m awayRef 200201HT00310
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 18 October 1987
4 m awayRef 198701HH00455
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 2 June 1987
4 m awayRef 198701HH00221
Slight
Volvo crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 2 September 2013
6 m awayRef 201301HT20647
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 8 November 2010
6 m awayRef 201001HT20812
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 13 October 2004
6 m awayRef 200401HT00699
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Tweet 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Tweet 125)
- 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 2019010227607 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.