A312 crash in Hounslow on 26 May 2002 at 17:45 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Peugeot 309 were involved in a crash on the A312 in Hounslow at 17:45 on Sunday 26 May 2002. The 31-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and a female passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2002
- Sunday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47395, longitude -0.40532, in the TW4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranford, Hounslow, TW5 9UT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201TX00538
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 August 1991.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 23 August 1991
At the same spotRef 199101TD00575
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 24 June 1997
14 m awayRef 199701TD00417
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 17 May 2005
14 m awayRef 200501TX20268
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 20 March 1995
28 m awayRef 199501TD00192
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 7 December 2016
32 m awayRef 2016010006866
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 22 June 1983
32 m awayRef 1983010TD0368
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200201TX00538 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.