A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 October 1982 at 03:35 involving a van
A van crashed on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 03:35 on Tuesday 5 October 1982. The 52-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1982
- Tuesday, 03:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52156, longitude -0.04763, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010HD0336
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- 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 slight injury crash on 15 June 2016.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 15 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20511
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 15 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20663
Slight
Honda crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201HT00786
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 13 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00207
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 29 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT02132
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HB0335
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1982010HD0336 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.