A4 crash in Hounslow on 23 December 2001 at 20:25 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 20:25 on Sunday 23 December 2001. The 35-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier 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
- 23 Dec 2001
- Sunday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48755, longitude -0.26729, in the W4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiswick Gunnersbury, Hounslow, W4 2DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101TX01347
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- C
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 16 December 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Hounslow, 16 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701TX20752
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 11 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200901TX20022
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on a C road in Hounslow, 28 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001TX01445
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Hounslow, 20 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101TX00402
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 11 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801TC00073
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 26 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010TC0174
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200101TX01347 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.