B120 crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 November 1983 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets at 18:00 on Thursday 10 November 1983. The 19-year-old male cyclist 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
- 10 Nov 1983
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52427, longitude -0.04838, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010HB0267
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 120
- 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 12 March 1982.
Slight
Lorry crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 12 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HB0060
Slight
Yamaha XC 125 crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 27 February 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010238965
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 15 October 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010274000
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 29 March 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010566601
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 28 July 2002
10 m awayRef 200201HT00624
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B120 in Tower Hamlets, 24 September 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT20915
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 19, on vehicle 2 (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 1983010HB0267 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.