A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 25 February 1986 at 16:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 16:15 on Tuesday 25 February 1986. The 22-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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 1986
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51729, longitude -0.0667, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601HD00068
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2019.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 11 March 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010168272
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 21 December 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010616743
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 August 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010197385
Slight
Piaggio MP3 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 18 October 2024
8 m awayRef 2024010539404
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 20 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010581996
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010439484
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 198601HD00068 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.