Serious A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 16 February 2015 at 01:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 01:00 on Monday 16 February 2015. A 20-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Feb 2015
- Monday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52786, longitude -0.02112, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501HT20135
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 9 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501HT20840
Slight
Honda crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 1 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901HT02010
Slight
Honda Pes 125 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201401HT21031
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 10 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801HH00057
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 5 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010613707
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 November 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010215685
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 201501HT20135 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 2015.