B145 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 January 1986 at 07:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B145 in Tower Hamlets at 07:30 on Tuesday 28 January 1986. The 33-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 1986
- Tuesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51159, longitude -0.04287, in the E1W 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
- 198601HD00029
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 145
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 126
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1986.
Slight
Lorry crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 5 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HD00387
Serious
Car crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 9 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501HD00082
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B145 in Tower Hamlets, 16 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HD00402
Slight
Car crash on the B126 in Tower Hamlets, 10 February 2022
12 m awayRef 2022010360101
Slight
Scooter crash on the A1203 in Tower Hamlets, 12 November 1982
20 m awayRef 1982010HD0377
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B145 in Tower Hamlets, 11 September 2025
27 m awayRef 2025010597099
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, 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 198601HD00029 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 1986.