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A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 December 1986 at 15:40 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 15:40 on Monday 22 December 1986. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Dec 1986
Monday, 15:40
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51443, longitude -0.05702, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.

Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198601HD00410
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
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, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2016.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    47 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)

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 198601HD00410 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.