Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 28 August 2022 at 00:53 involving a Yamaha GPD motorcycle
A Yamaha GPD motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 00:53 on Sunday 28 August 2022. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha GPD motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry road with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2022
- Sunday, 00:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha GPD and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5207, longitude -0.01947, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010396475
- 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
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 140
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2025.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 7 August 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010591013
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 13 October 2023
3 m awayRef 2023010471720
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 15 April 1991
5 m awayRef 199101HH00164
Slight
Van crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 4 June 1988
7 m awayRef 198801HH00243
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 21 November 2013
7 m awayRef 201301HT20956
Serious
Suzuki Alto crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 5 March 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010363837
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha GPD)
- 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 2022010396475 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 2022.