A4 crash in Hounslow on 19 August 1985 at 22:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 22:50 on Monday 19 August 1985. The 27-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 34-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 1985
- Monday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48309, longitude -0.32839, in the TW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TC00407
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 25 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200001TX00975
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 24 January 2014
10 m awayRef 201401TX20037
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 30 November 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010TC0625
Slight
Scania crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 25 August 2016
14 m awayRef 201601TX20640
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 11 April 1989
20 m awayRef 198901TC00204
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 22 September 2006
20 m awayRef 200601TX20625
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198501TC00407 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hounslow road accident statistics for 1985.