Serious A1202 crash in Tower Hamlets on 18 December 1981 at 19:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1202 in Tower Hamlets at 19:05 on Friday 18 December 1981. A 32-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 1981
- Friday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LITBC55
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1202
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
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 198101LITBC55 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 1981.