A1204 crash in Tower Hamlets on 21 March 1982 at 15:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets at 15:00 on Sunday 21 March 1982. A 29-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1, a 2-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 and a male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 1982
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50323, longitude -0.05951, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010HD0083
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1204
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 December 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401HD00416
Slight
Car crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 28 November 1984
22 m awayRef 198401HD00373
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 23 December 1997
51 m awayRef 199701HT00641
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 28 June 2002
51 m awayRef 200201HT00521
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A1204 in Tower Hamlets, 16 March 2011
54 m awayRef 201101HT20144
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 8 August 2025
93 m awayRef 2025010591472
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1982010HD0083 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 1982.