A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 13 March 1986 at 22:10 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 22:10 on Thursday 13 March 1986. The 73-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 1986
- Thursday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51282, longitude -0.04109, 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
- 198601HD00087
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 121
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2019.
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 1 September 2019
3 m awayRef 2019010202667
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 4 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010578751
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010378131
Slight
Honda SH 125 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 7 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010436414
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 6 October 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010403360
Serious
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 10 December 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010415626
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, 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 198601HD00087 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.