A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 October 2025 at 09:37 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 09:37 on Tuesday 28 October 2025. The 55-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Tuesday, 09:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52388, longitude -0.03449, 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
- 2025010606147
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2007.
Slight
Gilera crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 1 February 2007
9 m awayRef 200701HT20045
Serious
MG HS crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 3 June 2025
13 m awayRef 2025010578562
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 27 March 1999
13 m awayRef 199901HT00310
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 23 November 1994
13 m awayRef 199401HH00430
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 22 September 2005
13 m awayRef 200501HT20646
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 1 April 2019
13 m awayRef 2019010172657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 55, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010606147 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 2025.