A112 crash in Waltham Forest on 26 September 1986 at 12:17 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A112 in Waltham Forest at 12:17 on Friday 26 September 1986. A 78-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
- 26 Sep 1986
- Friday, 12:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58222, longitude -0.01862, in the E17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601JL00370
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 112
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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 8 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 8 February 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010JL0063
Slight
Car crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 23 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010JL0333
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 31 July 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010589609
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 22 September 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010599104
Serious
Bus crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 29 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198701JL00035
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A112 in Waltham Forest, 13 May 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010037201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 78, 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 198601JL00370 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 1986.