A1205 crash in Tower Hamlets on 20 December 2014 at 20:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets at 20:45 on Saturday 20 December 2014. A 31-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52182, longitude -0.0339, 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
- 201401HT29074
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 8 February 1992.
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 8 February 1992
At the same spotRef 199201HH00048
Slight
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 26 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010HH0038
Serious
Nissan Cherry crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 28 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601HH00398
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 26 March 2024
7 m awayRef 2024010503460
Serious
Car crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 10 March 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010HH0104
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1205 in Tower Hamlets, 23 November 2012
10 m awayRef 201201HT20885
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, 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 201401HT29074 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.