A315 crash in Hounslow on 27 February 2002 at 16:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on the A315 in Hounslow at 16:00 on Wednesday 27 February 2002. The 65-year-old female driver of the Ford Orion and the 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort were 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
- 27 Feb 2002
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45921, longitude -0.39964, in the TW14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranford, Hounslow, TW4 6EE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201TX00207
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- 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 23 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 23 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801TD01394
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 8 November 1987
10 m awayRef 198701TD00762
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 23 March 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010TD0152
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 28 May 1997
22 m awayRef 199701TD00331
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 5 December 1991
22 m awayRef 199101TD00857
Slight
Car crash on the A315 in Hounslow, 21 May 1988
51 m awayRef 198801TD00304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200201TX00207 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 2002.