Serious A102 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 November 1986 at 15:48 involving a car
A car crashed on the A102 in Tower Hamlets at 15:48 on Friday 7 November 1986. A 50-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Nov 1986
- Friday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52049, longitude -0.01049, in the E14 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601HH00526
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 102
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 serious injury crash on 31 October 1987.
Serious
Van crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 31 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00492
Slight
Car crash on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HH0569
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 17 December 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010285242
Serious
Lorry crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 4 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199101HH00527
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 18 October 2011
10 m awayRef 201101HT20720
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 25 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198601HH00554
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198601HH00526 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.