A30 crash in Hillingdon on 23 October 2001 at 23:50 involving a Mercedes A Class
A car and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the A30 in Hillingdon at 23:50 on Tuesday 23 October 2001. The 26-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2001
- Tuesday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46706, longitude -0.42082, in the TW14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heathrow Villages, Hillingdon, TW6 2GE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101TX01134
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 15 August 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 15 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101TX00897
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 22 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TX01029
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 14 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101TX00143
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 15 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801TD01343
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 11 May 1993
At the same spotRef 199301TD00293
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 22 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TD00546
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
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 200101TX01134 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 2001.