A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 13 April 2007 at 17:00 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus and a Hyundai Accent were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 17:00 on Friday 13 April 2007. A 35-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes bus 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
- 13 Apr 2007
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Hyundai Accent
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52498, longitude -0.03506, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701HT20254
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1205
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2011.
Slight
Bus crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 1 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201101HT20564
Slight
Honda SES125 crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 1 September 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20704
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 30 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TA00020
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 14 August 2012
At the same spotRef 201201HT20554
Slight
Honda CBR1100XX crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 8 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200301HT00238
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 7 February 2024
3 m awayRef 2024010493247
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Accent
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,341 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- 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 200701HT20254 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 2007.