B142 crash in Tower Hamlets on 25 November 1985 at 13:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B142 in Tower Hamlets at 13:15 on Monday 25 November 1985. A 7-year-old male pedestrian 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 Nov 1985
- Monday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53002, longitude -0.02117, 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
- 198501HH00513
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 142
- 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 23 November 1991.
Serious
Bedford crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 23 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HH00562
Serious
Car crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 27 January 2019
11 m awayRef 2019010159902
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 9 March 2005
14 m awayRef 200501HT20165
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 28 September 1990
14 m awayRef 199001HH00488
Slight
Bus crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 24 May 2014
14 m awayRef 201401HT20444
Slight
Car crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 6 March 2006
20 m awayRef 200601HT20095
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, 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 198501HH00513 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.