A30 crash in Hillingdon on 24 February 2012 at 21:23 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A30 in Hillingdon at 21:23 on Friday 24 February 2012. The 24-year-old male driver and a 44-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2012
- Friday, 21:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46637, longitude -0.423, in the TW6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heathrow Villages, Hillingdon, TW6 2GE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TB00500
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- 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
- 50 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
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 1993.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 17 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199301TD00540
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Nissan Leaf crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 4 May 2023
6 m awayRef 2023010441489
Slight
Bus crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 16 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701TD00230
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 6 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001TX01130
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 16 December 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010010419
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A30 in Hillingdon, 26 April 2019
12 m awayRef 2019010177165
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201201TB00500 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 2012.