B135 crash in Tower Hamlets on 22 December 2014 at 10:15 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the B135 in Tower Hamlets at 10:15 on Monday 22 December 2014. A 66-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
- 22 Dec 2014
- Monday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52737, longitude -0.05442, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bethnal Green West, Tower Hamlets, E2 0BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT21173
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 135
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 4 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HT00003
Slight
Car crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 26 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010HB0103
Slight
Car crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 19 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199101HB00243
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B119 in Tower Hamlets, 13 February 1990
At the same spotRef 199001HB00024
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 11 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT09154
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the B135 in Tower Hamlets, 8 April 2023
5 m awayRef 2023010436532
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 66, 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 201401HT21173 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 2014.