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Fatal A1203 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 August 1982 at 20:25 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets at 20:25 on Thursday 12 August 1982. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Fatal
Date
12 Aug 1982
Thursday, 20:25
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50974, longitude -0.05059, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982010HD0258
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1203
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
1204

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1982010HD0258 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.