A4 crash in Hounslow on 21 January 2009 at 08:20 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 08:20 on Wednesday 21 January 2009. The 26-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2009
- Wednesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Brava and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47659, longitude -0.38161, in the TW5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heston Central, Hounslow, TW5 0JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901TX20040
- 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
- 30 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 23 November 2010
14 m awayRef 201001TX20814
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 2 February 2001
14 m awayRef 200101TX00093
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 16 May 2006
22 m awayRef 200601TE00142
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 15 October 2011
22 m awayRef 201101TX20662
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 9 October 2009
32 m awayRef 200901TE00135
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 22 December 2017
36 m awayRef 2017010079704
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200901TX20040 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 2009.