B455 crash in Ealing on 15 December 1996 at 05:42 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B455 in Ealing at 05:42 on Sunday 15 December 1996. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 1996
- Sunday, 05:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50338, longitude -0.30705, in the W5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601XD00930
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 455
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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 9 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B455 in Ealing, 9 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199701XD00164
Slight
Car crash on the B455 in Ealing, 7 November 2001
10 m awayRef 200101XS01456
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3001 in Ealing, 14 April 1992
14 m awayRef 199201XD00265
Slight
Suzuki Celerio crash on the B455 in Ealing, 24 December 2017
30 m awayRef 2017010080006
Slight
Bus crash on the B455 in Ealing, 1 February 2013
40 m awayRef 201301XD80085
Serious
Car crash on the A3001 in Ealing, 14 October 1987
40 m awayRef 198701XD00725
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 199601XD00930 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1996.