A312 crash in Hounslow on 21 October 1998 at 17:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort, a Ford Mondeo and an Audi Coupe were involved in a crash on the A312 in Hounslow at 17:00 on Wednesday 21 October 1998. A 58-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo and a 29-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 1998
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49331, longitude -0.41028, in the TW5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801TD01087
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 9 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TD00853
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 3 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199501TD00800
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 12 November 2010
10 m awayRef 201001TX20790
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 8 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199801TD01293
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 19 March 2013
14 m awayRef 201301TX20169
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 27 September 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010065589
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Audi Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199801TD01087 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 1998.