M4 crash in Hounslow on 20 February 1997 at 08:00 involving a Ford Escort
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 1997
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49114, longitude -0.29367, in the TW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701TC00095
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1999.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 2 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901TX00758
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 31 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001TX01439
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 19 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010140248
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 7 October 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010023851
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 24 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701TC00217
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 9 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199701TC00507
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199701TC00095 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 1997.