A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 February 2024 at 23:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 23:05 on Saturday 24 February 2024. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2024
- Saturday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51145, longitude -0.06877, 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
- 2024010496366
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Zebra crossing
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 November 2023.
Serious
Nissan Juke crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 2023
2 m awayRef 2023010477035
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 7 July 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010585228
Slight
Mercedes GLC Class crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 23 January 2020
3 m awayRef 2020010232386
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 20 January 1982
4 m awayRef 1982010HD0016
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 4 October 2014
4 m awayRef 201401HT20883
Slight
Car crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets, 30 April 1991
4 m awayRef 199101HD00120
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Towing and articulation
- Caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2024010496366 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 2024.