A102(M) crash in Tower Hamlets on 27 December 1981 at 04:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets at 04:55 on Sunday 27 December 1981. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1981
- Sunday, 04:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LREL650
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 102
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198101LREL650 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.