Serious unclassified road crash in Hounslow TW7 on 21 August 2001 at 16:50 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Hounslow at 16:50 on Tuesday 21 August 2001. A female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Aug 2001
- Tuesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45848, longitude -0.34641, in the TW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hounslow South, Hounslow, TW7 7NY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101TX00910
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 11 October 2001.
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 11 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200101TX01161
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 7 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901TC00012
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 2 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501TC00552
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 7 March 1992
14 m awayRef 199201TC00128
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 17 November 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010609934
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 14 January 1993
30 m awayRef 199301TC00035
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 200101TX00910 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 2001.