A4 crash in Hounslow on 13 April 2003 at 02:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 02:15 on Sunday 13 April 2003. The 20-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2003
- Sunday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47846, longitude -0.4066, in the TW5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranford, Hounslow, TW5 9RF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301TX00315
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1995.
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 15 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199501TD00485
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 13 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200101TX00867
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 26 March 2007
10 m awayRef 200701TX20159
Slight
Lexmoto TR crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 24 December 2024
14 m awayRef 2024010551005
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 3 January 2008
14 m awayRef 200801TX20002
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 22 June 2018
20 m awayRef 2018010116181
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 200301TX00315 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 2003.