B142 crash in Tower Hamlets on 10 November 1986 at 11:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B142 in Tower Hamlets at 11:00 on Monday 10 November 1986. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 1986
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52855, longitude -0.01951, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601HH00536
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 142
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1992.
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 14 March 1992
10 m awayRef 199201HH00092
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 17 March 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010096923
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 28 May 2023
11 m awayRef 2023010445619
Slight
Bus crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 25 November 1986
14 m awayRef 198601HH00559
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 16 August 2016
20 m awayRef 201601HT20804
Slight
Car crash on the B142 in Tower Hamlets, 6 August 2010
20 m awayRef 201001HT20536
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198601HH00536 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.