A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 4 October 1986 at 20:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 20:05 on Saturday 4 October 1986. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 1986
- Saturday, 20:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51077, longitude -0.021, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601HH00458
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 18 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200001HT00140
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 11 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT20815
Slight
Bus crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 28 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0448
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 9 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TC00226
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 14 April 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010032204
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 12 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20900
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 198601HH00458 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.