A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 December 1981 at 04:20 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 04:20 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1981
- Wednesday, 04:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LNEEC59
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 198101LNEEC59 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.