B3003 crash in Hounslow on 23 December 1997 at 20:20 involving a Lexus LS400
A bicycle and a Lexus LS400 were involved in a crash on the B3003 in Hounslow at 20:20 on Tuesday 23 December 1997. The 43-year-old male driver of the Lexus LS400 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1997
- Tuesday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Lexus LS400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4476, longitude -0.44813, in the TW14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701TD00922
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3003
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 315
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 November 2006.
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the B3003 in Hounslow, 10 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200601TX29017
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Hounslow, 21 February 1991
At the same spotRef 199101TD00122
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3003 in Hounslow, 25 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801TD01118
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the B3003 in Hounslow, 12 April 2005
10 m awayRef 200501TX20184
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the B3003 in Hounslow, 11 November 2014
10 m awayRef 201401TX20861
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3003 in Hounslow, 8 October 1997
22 m awayRef 199701TD00695
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Lexus LS400
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Lexus LS400)
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 199701TD00922 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.