Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 8 August 1986 at 10:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 10:55 on Friday 8 August 1986. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Aug 1986
- Friday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51799, longitude -0.06537, 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
- 198601HD00257
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 1999.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 30 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT00484
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 April 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HB00096
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198601HB00061
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 7 March 2016
10 m awayRef 201601HT20262
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 12 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198401HD00280
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 28 July 2021
13 m awayRef 2021010321382
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198601HD00257 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.