Serious A30 crash in Hounslow on 28 February 2008 at 13:29 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo, a DAF Trucks lorry and a Scania lorry were involved in a crash on the A30 in Hounslow at 13:29 on Thursday 28 February 2008. The 61-year-old male driver of the Citroen Berlingo was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Feb 2008
- Thursday, 13:29
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Berlingo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4718, longitude -0.40597, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801TX20122
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 312
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 16 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TE00318
Slight
Scania crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 31 October 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010067403
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 28 November 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010612246
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 11 November 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010001152
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 24 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200501TX20528
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 8 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200001TX00373
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,021 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Berlingo)
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 200801TX20122 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 2008.