Serious A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 8 July 1983 at 12:25 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 12:25 on Friday 8 July 1983. A 64-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jul 1983
- Friday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51227, longitude -0.02958, in the E14 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010HH0283
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 6 October 1992.
Slight
Honda crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 6 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HH00411
Slight
Bus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 11 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200301HT00506
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 26 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT75405
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 11 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00205
Slight
Fiat 127 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 2 January 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HH00040
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 28 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Double or multiple trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
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 1983010HH0283 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.