A4 crash in Hounslow on 19 December 2005 at 07:50 involving a Jeep Cherokee
Four vehicles, including a Jeep Cherokee and a Mercedes C Class, were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 07:50 on Monday 19 December 2005. The 28-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 taxi and a 28-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206 taxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2005
- Monday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 4
- Jeep Cherokee and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49039, longitude -0.3078, in the TW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brentford West, Hounslow, TW8 0QL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501TX20768
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 17 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200001TX01277
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 3 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198701TC00466
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 2 July 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010584411
Slight
Car crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 17 December 1985
20 m awayRef 198501TC00670
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 10 January 2018
20 m awayRef 2018010082958
Serious
Toyota Carina crash on the M4 in Hounslow, 21 March 1993
22 m awayRef 199301TC00141
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,960 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 206
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200501TX20768 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 2005.