Serious B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 19 August 1985 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 18:00 on Monday 19 August 1985. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Aug 1985
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53581, longitude -0.02871, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501HH00366
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 8 May 2015.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 8 May 2015
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 13 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00290
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 2024
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Slight
Bus crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 28 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200301HT09039
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 6 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198901HH00071
Slight
Bus crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 30 August 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010HH0366
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198501HH00366 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.