Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 December 1981 at 19:00

A vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 19:00 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 19:00
Vehicles: 1; Other vehicle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LNTAU52
Council area: Tower Hamlets
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Pedestrian location
On footway or verge

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 198101LNTAU52 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.