Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E14 on 12 November 2023 at 11:15 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Honda CBR motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 11:15 on Sunday 12 November 2023. The 22-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2023
- Sunday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Honda CBR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51508, longitude -0.02743, 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 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010477479
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 2009.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 26 June 2009
3 m awayRef 200901HT20366
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 29 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010418948
Slight
Renault Master crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 1 February 1994
3 m awayRef 199401HH00036
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 2 February 2003
7 m awayRef 200301HT00085
Slight
Mazda 121 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 5 October 2010
7 m awayRef 201001HT20724
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 18 April 2003
7 m awayRef 200301HT00321
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR)
- 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 2023010477479 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.