Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 May 1986 at 00:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 00:10 on Wednesday 28 May 1986. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 42-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 May 1986
- Wednesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52313, longitude -0.03935, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601HD00197
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 September 2018.
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 30 September 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010135936
Serious
Lorry crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 23 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HD00111
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 1 April 2019
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 19 July 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010194606
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 1 January 2020
9 m awayRef 2020010228017
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 14 May 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010376460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, 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 198601HD00197 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.