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Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 August 1982 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 17:50 on Monday 23 August 1982. The 42-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Aug 1982
Monday, 17:50
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52826, longitude -0.01837, in the E3 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
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982010HH0359
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
11
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
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 10 December 1999.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 42, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 1982010HH0359 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.