A503 crash in Waltham Forest on 25 May 2025 at 10:03 involving a Wrightbus Gemini
A Wrightbus Gemini crashed on the A503 in Waltham Forest at 10:03 on Sunday 25 May 2025. A 40-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 2025
- Sunday, 10:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus Gemini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58922, longitude -0.02991, in the E17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Street, Waltham Forest, E17 6SE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010576868
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 503
- Road type
- Dual 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
- C
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2021.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A503 in Waltham Forest, 3 April 2021
1 m awayRef 2021010302646
Serious
Audi A5 crash on the A503 in Waltham Forest, 17 May 2020
3 m awayRef 2020010248090
Slight
Volvo crash on the A503 in Waltham Forest, 11 May 2012
4 m awayRef 201201JC30193
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A503 in Waltham Forest, 12 September 1991
4 m awayRef 199101JC00392
Slight
Citroen XM crash on the A503 in Waltham Forest, 1 April 1998
4 m awayRef 199801JC00138
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A503 in Waltham Forest, 31 January 1992
4 m awayRef 199201JC00058
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Gemini
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,692 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Gemini)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2025010576868 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 2025.