C road crash in Tower Hamlets E14 on 22 December 1988 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Tower Hamlets at 17:50 on Thursday 22 December 1988. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and the 60-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1988
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51372, longitude -0.02001, 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
- 198801HH00638
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 13 September 1993.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198801HH00638 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 1988.