A4 crash in Hounslow on 27 December 2009 at 17:10 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the A4 in Hounslow at 17:10 on Sunday 27 December 2009. The 17-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2009
- Sunday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48846, longitude -0.2746, 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 4EJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901TX20816
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 11 October 1994
10 m awayRef 199401TC00536
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 9 December 1998
14 m awayRef 199801TD01332
Slight
Mazda Xedos crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 26 November 2001
20 m awayRef 200101TX01250
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 26 December 2007
20 m awayRef 200701TX20761
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 2 March 1994
22 m awayRef 199401TC00128
Slight
Van crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 28 September 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010TC0480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200901TX20816 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.