B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 1 April 1983 at 12:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 12:00 on Friday 1 April 1983. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 1983
- Friday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52451, longitude -0.05745, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010HB0082
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 2024.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 2 May 2024
7 m awayRef 2024010508292
Slight
Car crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 1 August 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HB00176
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 5 February 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HB00023
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 11 May 2024
10 m awayRef 2024010509930
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 22 December 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010079826
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 12 June 2024
17 m awayRef 2024010515845
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1983010HB0082 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 1983.