A4 crash in Hounslow on 25 December 2004 at 11:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a BMW were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 11:00 on Saturday 25 December 2004. The 43-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class and a 39-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes E Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and BMW
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48746, longitude -0.26714, in the W4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiswick Gunnersbury, Hounslow, W4 2DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401TX00860
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 3 June 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TX20308
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 14 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TC00227
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 13 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200801TX20116
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 29 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198401TC00301
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on a C road in Hounslow, 20 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501TC00280
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 6 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601TE00167
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: BMW
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,926 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- 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 200401TX00860 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 2004.