Serious A30 crash in Hillingdon on 19 April 2004 at 07:15 involving a Mercedes lorry
A motorcycle and a Mercedes lorry were involved in a crash on the A30 in Hillingdon at 07:15 on Monday 19 April 2004. The 38-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2004
- Monday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46601, longitude -0.42359, in the TW14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heathrow Villages, Hillingdon, TW6 2GE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hillingdon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401TE00291
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 27 October 2013.
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 27 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301TX20707
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 17 August 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TD00780
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 20 December 1988
14 m awayRef 198801TD00848
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 9 May 1989
14 m awayRef 198901TD00315
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 12 August 1992
14 m awayRef 199201TD00499
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 11 January 2002
14 m awayRef 200201TX00230
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200401TE00291 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 2004.