A4020 crash in Hammersmith and Fulham on 28 December 1997 at 13:35 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4020 in Hammersmith and Fulham at 13:35 on Sunday 28 December 1997. The 47-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1997
- Sunday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50581, longitude -0.22828, in the W12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701FH00595
- Council area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4020
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A4020 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 18 February 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010FS0038
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4020 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 18 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401FH00568
Slight
Honda ANF125 crash on the A4020 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 11 February 2012
At the same spotRef 201201FH10076
Serious
Volvo 740 crash on the A4020 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 29 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501FH00588
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Hammersmith and Fulham, 30 March 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010299236
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4020 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 4 October 2020
9 m awayRef 2020010278391
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,766 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 199701FH00595 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hammersmith and Fulham road accident statistics for 1997.