A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 October 2023 at 19:45 involving a Yamaha GPD motorcycle
A Yamaha GPD motorcycle and an Audi A1 were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 19:45 on Monday 23 October 2023. The 44-year-old male rider of the Yamaha GPD motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2023
- Monday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha GPD and Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51736, longitude -0.06674, 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
- 2023010474189
- 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
- 11
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Second road class
- C
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 2023.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 April 2023
At the same spotRef 2023010439484
Slight
Piaggio MP3 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 18 October 2024
1 m awayRef 2024010539404
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 9 November 2020
1 m awayRef 2020010279721
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 26 August 2019
2 m awayRef 2019010201642
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 January 2024
3 m awayRef 2024010491278
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010572883
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A1
Car
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha GPD)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2023010474189 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 2023.