A102 crash in Tower Hamlets on 25 November 1986 at 07:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets at 07:10 on Tuesday 25 November 1986. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 1986
- Tuesday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52049, longitude -0.01063, 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
- 198601HH00554
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 4 December 2009.
Slight
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Slight
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At the same spotRef 201101HT20720
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A12 in Tower Hamlets, 17 December 2020
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Serious
Van crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 31 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00492
Slight
Car crash on the A102(M) in Tower Hamlets, 19 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010HH0569
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A102 in Tower Hamlets, 24 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199601HH00312
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198601HH00554 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.