Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E1W on 1 May 2009 at 14:50 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 14:50 on Friday 1 May 2009. A 68-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2009
- Friday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50553, longitude -0.06587, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE1 2LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT20206
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2004.
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 11 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200401HT00231
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 13 August 1991
14 m awayRef 199101HD00237
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 30 October 2025
25 m awayRef 2025010606532
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 12 February 1996
28 m awayRef 199601HT00058
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 29 November 2001
36 m awayRef 200101HT01243
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets, 31 May 1997
57 m awayRef 199701HT00267
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 68, 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 200901HT20206 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 2009.