B118 crash in Tower Hamlets on 28 December 2003 at 19:10 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B118 in Tower Hamlets at 19:10 on Sunday 28 December 2003. A male passenger was 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
- 28 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53576, longitude -0.02854, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bow East, Tower Hamlets, E3 2RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301HT09039
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 118
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 118
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 30 August 1983.
Slight
Bus crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 30 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0366
Slight
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 6 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00071
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 10 October 2024
3 m awayRef 2024010536993
Serious
Car crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 19 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198501HH00366
Slight
Taxi crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 8 May 2015
10 m awayRef 201501HT20422
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B118 in Tower Hamlets, 13 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198701HH00290
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, 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 200301HT09039 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 2003.