Serious C road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 28 October 1982 at 13:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 13:00 on Thursday 28 October 1982. The 15-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Oct 1982
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52006, longitude -0.01728, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010HH0472
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 slight injury crash on 25 October 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 25 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HH00453
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 19 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010610471
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 22 March 2025
27 m awayRef 2025010565427
Slight
Honda NSC crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 1 December 2025
31 m awayRef 2025010613631
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 23 October 1985
36 m awayRef 198501HH00443
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 2 July 2024
41 m awayRef 2024010519480
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1982010HH0472 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.