A30 crash in Hounslow on 5 July 2007 at 08:00 involving a Citroen C8
Two cars, a Citroen C8 and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A30 in Hounslow at 08:00 on Thursday 5 July 2007. The 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 46-year-old male driver of the Citroen C8 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2007
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Citroen C8 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47336, longitude -0.40145, in the TW4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranford, Hounslow, TW5 9UT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701TX20384
- Council area
- Hounslow
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 21 November 1987
14 m awayRef 198701TD00808
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 19 August 2014
42 m awayRef 201401TX20646
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 7 September 2005
45 m awayRef 200501TX20559
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 25 May 2021
52 m awayRef 2021010309363
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 26 April 1989
58 m awayRef 198901TD00292
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 6 June 1989
58 m awayRef 198901TD00377
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
Vehicle 3: Citroen C8
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 4: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Citroen C8)
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 200701TX20384 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 2007.