B140 crash in Tower Hamlets on 14 November 1985 at 17:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B140 in Tower Hamlets at 17:00 on Thursday 14 November 1985. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
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
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51817, longitude -0.03855, 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
- 198501HD00302
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 140
- 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
- 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 19 December 1990.
Slight
Honda H100S crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HD00391
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 29 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401HD00102
Slight
Triumph Herald crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 12 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HD00209
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 3 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HD00093
Slight
Car crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 23 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0317
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B140 in Tower Hamlets, 18 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200801HT75758
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198501HD00302 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 1985.