A100 crash in Tower Hamlets on 23 May 2019 at 15:10 involving a Wrightbus NB4L
A Wrightbus NB4L crashed on the A100 in Tower Hamlets at 15:10 on Thursday 23 May 2019. A 28-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2019
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus NB4L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50795, longitude -0.0742, in the E1W postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE1 2LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010866634
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 100
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2018.
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A100 in Tower Hamlets, 11 July 2018
4 m awayRef 2018010334254
Slight
Triumph Speed Triple 1050 crash on the A100 in the City of London, 2 October 2008
5 m awayRef 200801CP00240
Slight
Car crash on the A100 in the City of London, 22 December 1989
5 m awayRef 198901CP00467
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A100 in the City of London, 25 August 1998
5 m awayRef 199801CP00272
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A100 in the City of London, 22 March 2008
9 m awayRef 200801HT70450
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A100 in the City of London, 27 March 1996
9 m awayRef 199601HT00134
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus NB4L
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus NB4L)
- 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 2019010866634 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 2019.