C road crash in Hounslow TW5 on 21 October 1997 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on a C road in Hounslow at 08:30 on Tuesday 21 October 1997. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 1997
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48527, longitude -0.38103, in the TW5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701TD00735
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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 1 December 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hounslow, 1 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198801TD00795
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Hounslow, 19 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200801TX20548
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hounslow, 17 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198901TD00670
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Hounslow, 4 November 2025
12 m awayRef 2025010607460
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hounslow, 18 July 1984
14 m awayRef 198401TD00415
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hounslow, 22 September 1985
20 m awayRef 198501TD00626
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199701TD00735 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.