A315 crash in Hammersmith and Fulham on 21 February 2002 at 16:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham at 16:40 on Thursday 21 February 2002. The 28-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2002
- Thursday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49246, longitude -0.22892, in the W6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hammersmith Broadway, Hammersmith and Fulham, W6 8DL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201FH00796
- Council area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 9 July 1997.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 9 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701FH00301
Slight
Car crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 18 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010FD0205
Serious
Audi 80 crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 24 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801FH00116
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 23 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801FH00121
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 17 March 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010564486
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 15 October 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010538040
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200201FH00796 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hammersmith and Fulham road accident statistics for 2002.