A1208 crash in Tower Hamlets on 7 March 2017 at 12:05 involving a Wrightbus NB4L
A Wrightbus NB4L crashed on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets at 12:05 on Tuesday 7 March 2017. A 58-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2017
- Tuesday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus NB4L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53095, longitude -0.07128, in the E2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hoxton East & Shoreditch, Hackney, N1 6RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010023452
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Pedestrian in carriageway, not injured
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2004.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 22 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200401GD10139
Serious
Bus crash on the A1208 in Hackney, 4 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010GH0649
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A1208 in Hackney, 21 November 2021
5 m awayRef 2021010345300
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 27 July 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010390868
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1208 in Hackney, 30 September 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010271072
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets, 21 October 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010604959
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus NB4L
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus NB4L)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2017010023452 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 2017.