C road crash in Tower Hamlets E1W on 18 August 1986 at 14:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 14:10 on Monday 18 August 1986. The 48-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 1986
- Monday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50672, longitude -0.05864, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601HD00267
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 1 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200001HT00266
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Serious
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 22 July 2022
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 9 July 2024
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Slight
Van crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 23 May 1989
30 m awayRef 198901HD00180
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets, 5 September 1997
32 m awayRef 199701HT00443
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198601HD00267 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.