B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 April 1985 at 10:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 10:15 on Saturday 20 April 1985. A 30-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 1985
- Saturday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53491, longitude -0.0338, in the E3 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
- 198501HH00161
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2015.
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 10 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT21050
Serious
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 27 February 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HH0063
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 17 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HH00417
Serious
Mercedes Vito crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 8 April 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010100596
Slight
Hyundai Ioniq crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 7 August 2024
11 m awayRef 2024010525941
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 2020
13 m awayRef 2020010285609
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 198501HH00161 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.