A4020 crash in Ealing on 17 August 1998 at 16:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4020 in Ealing at 16:50 on Monday 17 August 1998. The 56-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle 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
- 17 Aug 1998
- Monday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51125, longitude -0.29148, in the W5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801XD00511
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4020
- 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 October 1998.
Slight
MCW crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 1 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199801XD00624
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4 m awayRef 2025010580168
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 4 July 2019
4 m awayRef 2019010195865
Slight
Car crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 27 March 1984
10 m awayRef 198401XD00241
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 17 August 2014
10 m awayRef 201401XD80860
Slight
Leyland National crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 15 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199501XD00297
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 750 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 199801XD00511 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1998.