Unclassified road crash at Heathrow Airport TW6 on 16 July 2003 at 15:30 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport at 15:30 on Wednesday 16 July 2003. The 64-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xantia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2003
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xantia and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47207, longitude -0.45333, in the TW6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heathrow Villages, Hillingdon, TW6 1PY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened at Heathrow Airport
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301ID00050
- Council area
- Heathrow Airport
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- London Airport (Heathrow)
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2008.
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 12 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200801ID69367
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Nissan E24 crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 15 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199301ID00060
Serious
Saab 9000 crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 1 April 1997
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Chrysler Voyager crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 1 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200301ID00088
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 23 December 1995
14 m awayRef 199501ID00101
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 29 November 1985
20 m awayRef 198501ID00100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xantia)
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 200301ID00050 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Heathrow Airport road accident statistics for 2003.