Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E2 on 5 May 1983 at 12:03 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 12:03 on Thursday 5 May 1983. The 72-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 1983
- Thursday, 12:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52418, longitude -0.07001, 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
- 1983010HB0105
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2021.
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Car crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 23 July 1982
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Van crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 5 February 1983
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1983010HB0105 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.