A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 16 September 1986 at 15:30 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 15:30 on Tuesday 16 September 1986. The 20-year-old male driver of the van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 1986
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52654, longitude -0.02839, in the E3 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
- 198601HH00444
- 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
- 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 15 June 2010.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 15 June 2010
At the same spotRef 201001HT20425
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 30 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501HD00184
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 18 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201601HT20325
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 21 November 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010220704
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 7 May 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010375083
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 26 September 2020
8 m awayRef 2020010270295
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198601HH00444 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.