B121 crash in Tower Hamlets on 1 November 1986 at 17:55 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets at 17:55 on Saturday 1 November 1986. The 21-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 1986
- Saturday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51883, longitude -0.04559, 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
- 198601HD00349
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 121
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1992.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 25 November 1992
10 m awayRef 199201HD00316
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 1 May 1987
14 m awayRef 198701HD00118
Slight
Bicycle crash in Tower Hamlets, 13 August 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010HD0262
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 5 January 1992
22 m awayRef 199201HD00002
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 17 August 2024
28 m awayRef 2024010527498
Slight
Car crash on the B121 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 2015
30 m awayRef 201501HT20793
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 21, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198601HD00349 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.