A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 15 April 2013 at 11:46 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 11:46 on Monday 15 April 2013. A 75-year-old male 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
- 15 Apr 2013
- Monday, 11:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51218, longitude -0.02798, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 6JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301HT20251
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1205
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 2013.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 8 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20329
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 9 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198901HH00555
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 8 February 2013
At the same spotRef 201301HT20071
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 5 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200501HT20889
Serious
Lexmoto Aura crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 2 June 2023
1 m awayRef 2023010461835
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 31 December 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010618209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 75, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 201301HT20251 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 2013.