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A100 crash in Tower Hamlets on 17 May 1983 at 12:10 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on the A100 in Tower Hamlets at 12:10 on Tuesday 17 May 1983. A 40-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 May 1983
Tuesday, 12:10
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50932, longitude -0.07395, in the EC3N postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010HD0148
Council area
Tower Hamlets
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
100
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
A
Second road number
1210

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

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 slight injury crash on 22 December 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    50 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Standing 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 1983010HD0148 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 1983.