A13 crash in Tower Hamlets on 25 May 2021 at 15:55 involving a Wrightbus NB4L
A Wrightbus NB4L crashed on the A13 in Tower Hamlets at 15:55 on Tuesday 25 May 2021. A 63-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 2021
- Tuesday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus NB4L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51101, longitude -0.01778, in the E14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14 0ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021010309461
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 December 1991.
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 12 December 1991
2 m awayRef 199101HH00591
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 28 June 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010451960
Slight
Lexus IS 250 crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 5 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010608331
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 5 August 1985
8 m awayRef 198501HH00338
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 1 November 1985
8 m awayRef 198501HH00463
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A13 in Tower Hamlets, 21 June 1985
8 m awayRef 198501HH00266
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus NB4L
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 63, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus NB4L)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2021010309461 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 2021.