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Fatal A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 December 1983 at 23:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 23:10 on Saturday 24 December 1983. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
24 Dec 1983
Saturday, 23:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51322, longitude -0.04367, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010HD0370
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
13
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
Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, 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 21 September 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Female, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1983010HD0370 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.