A1069 crash in Waltham Forest on 24 April 2017 at 09:15 involving a Wrightbus Streetlite
A Wrightbus Streetlite crashed on the A1069 in Waltham Forest at 09:15 on Monday 24 April 2017. A 64-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2017
- Monday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus Streetlite
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63344, longitude 0.01023, in the E4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chingford Green, Waltham Forest, E4 6DL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010033646
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1069
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1986.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Waltham Forest, 19 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198601JC00552
Serious
Bus crash on the A1069 in Waltham Forest, 3 October 2003
28 m awayRef 200301JC00673
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1069 in Waltham Forest, 10 February 1996
28 m awayRef 199601JC00070
Slight
Car crash on the A1069 in Waltham Forest, 31 October 2001
28 m awayRef 200101JC00875
Slight
Car crash on the A1069 in Waltham Forest, 16 April 1997
28 m awayRef 199701JC00136
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A1069 in Waltham Forest, 26 February 2025
30 m awayRef 2025010561117
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Streetlite
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- 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
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Streetlite)
- 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 2017010033646 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2017.