A3006 crash in Hounslow on 24 December 2004 at 17:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A3006 in Hounslow at 17:00 on Friday 24 December 2004. The 51-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2004
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47288, longitude -0.38635, in the TW4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hounslow West, Hounslow, TW4 7AU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401TX00866
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3006
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 27 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198501TD00401
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 29 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TX20686
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 2 July 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010584291
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 1 March 1992
10 m awayRef 199201TD00122
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 4 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199701TD00005
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 12 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199801TD01318
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200401TX00866 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.