A312 crash in Hounslow on 24 December 2008 at 16:31 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A312 in Hounslow at 16:31 on Wednesday 24 December 2008. The 40-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 16:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44017, longitude -0.38764, in the TW13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hanworth Village, Hounslow, TW13 6BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801TX29015
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1998.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 10 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801TD01192
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 20 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TX00566
Slight
Seat Marbella crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 3 July 1992
At the same spotRef 199201TD00423
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 19 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801TD00185
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 4 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201101TX20044
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 3 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501TD00154
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 200801TX29015 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.