A4 crash in Hounslow on 6 November 1998 at 17:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Leyland DAF 400 van were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 17:35 on Friday 6 November 1998. The 32-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 1998
- Friday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Leyland DAF 400
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4914, longitude -0.29943, in the TW8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801TD01191
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 September 2015.
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 25 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501TX20781
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 10 August 2015
At the same spotRef 201501TX20580
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 19 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901TX00591
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 16 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901TX00051
Serious
Car crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 4 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198401TC00007
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 15 October 2013
10 m awayRef 201301TX20678
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Leyland DAF 400
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199801TD01191 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.