A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 3 September 2017 at 15:04 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 15:04 on Sunday 3 September 2017. A 55-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2017
- Sunday, 15:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51513, longitude -0.07195, in the E1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010057022
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1202
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2017.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 20 March 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010026559
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 18 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HT00191
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 16 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200901HT20001
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 26 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701HT00424
Slight
Van crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 9 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200101HT00086
Slight
Mini Clubman crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 25 September 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010012457
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, 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 2017010057022 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.