A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 29 October 2009 at 11:36 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 11:36 on Thursday 29 October 2009. A 41-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 29 Oct 2009
- Thursday, 11:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52308, longitude -0.03947, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Dunstan's, Tower Hamlets, E1 3NG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901HT20690
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 17 October 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 17 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010139696
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 12 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HH00431
Slight
Honda crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 12 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00248
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 29 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00291
Slight
Taxi crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 24 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HD0117
Serious
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198601HD00060
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 200901HT20690 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.