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A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 26 August 1983 at 20:45 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 20:45 on Friday 26 August 1983. The 16-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
26 Aug 1983
Friday, 20:45
Vehicles
2
Motor scooter and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52072, longitude -0.05142, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.

Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010HD0254
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
11
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
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 18 September 2013.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    16 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    U-turn
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    32 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 16, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 1983010HD0254 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.