A11 crash in Tower Hamlets on 5 December 2025 at 21:25 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and an Alexander Dennis bus were involved in a crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets at 21:25 on Friday 5 December 2025. The 30-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2025
- Friday, 21:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52788, longitude -0.02114, in the E3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley North, Tower Hamlets, E3 4RF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010613707
- 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
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 11
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 9 September 2015
2 m awayRef 201501HT20840
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 10 February 1998
2 m awayRef 199801HH00057
Slight
Honda crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 1 November 1999
2 m awayRef 199901HT02010
Slight
Honda Pes 125 crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 3 November 2014
2 m awayRef 201401HT21031
Serious
Bus crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 16 February 2015
2 m awayRef 201501HT20135
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A11 in Tower Hamlets, 2 November 2019
6 m awayRef 2019010215685
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025010613707 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 2025.