Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E1 on 25 January 1983 at 09:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 09:20 on Tuesday 25 January 1983. An 11-year-old 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
- 25 Jan 1983
- Tuesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51204, longitude -0.05366, 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
- 1983010HD0020
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 2014.
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 15 June 2014
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 7 September 2011
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 15 July 2014
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Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 7 July 1990
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Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 9 June 1998
10 m awayRef 199801HT00310
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1983010HD0020 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.