A1206 crash in Tower Hamlets on 12 September 1983 at 11:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets at 11:30 on Monday 12 September 1983. A 79-year-old female 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
- 12 Sep 1983
- Monday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49628, longitude -0.00938, 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
- 1983010HH0385
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1206
- 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
- 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 3 February 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 3 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00080
Slight
Van crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 2 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00076
Slight
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 3 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198801HH00425
Serious
Car crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 27 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701HH00477
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 2 January 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010081190
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1206 in Tower Hamlets, 19 February 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010559937
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 79, 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 1983010HH0385 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.