Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E3 on 25 October 1985 at 16:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 16:30 on Friday 25 October 1985. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 1985
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52006, longitude -0.01743, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501HH00453
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 October 1982.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 28 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HH0472
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 19 November 2025
19 m awayRef 2025010610471
Slight
Honda NSC crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 1 December 2025
27 m awayRef 2025010613631
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 23 October 1985
28 m awayRef 198501HH00443
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 22 March 2025
30 m awayRef 2025010565427
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 9 September 1999
36 m awayRef 199901HT00939
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198501HH00453 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.