A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 11 August 1983 at 17:25 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 17:25 on Thursday 11 August 1983. A 17-year-old male passenger in the car and a 17-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 1983
- Thursday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51631, longitude -0.02941, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010HH0337
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1205
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1992.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HH00418
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 13 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HH00348
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 17 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HH00348
Serious
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 7 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00434
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 27 May 1988
10 m awayRef 198801HH00231
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 15 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010139836
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1983010HH0337 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.