A4 crash in Hounslow on 19 January 2006 at 13:45 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5, a Mercedes E Class and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 13:45 on Thursday 19 January 2006. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes E Class, the 33-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class and the 23-year-old male driver of the Mazda MX-5 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 2006
- Thursday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mazda MX-5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48775, longitude -0.26872, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601TX20137
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 February 2002.
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 23 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TX00196
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 27 June 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TX20363
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 9 April 2022
8 m awayRef 2022010370026
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 28 November 1987
10 m awayRef 198701TC00641
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 11 March 2008
10 m awayRef 200801TX20134
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 5 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501TC00188
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes E Class)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 200601TX20137 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 2006.