Serious A404 crash in Hillingdon on 15 August 2012 at 19:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on the A404 in Hillingdon at 19:00 on Wednesday 15 August 2012. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60269, longitude -0.40976, in the HA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pinner, Harrow, HA5 3YY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hillingdon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TB00832
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Single 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 472
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 7 August 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A404 in Hillingdon, 7 August 2015
At the same spotRef 201501XH30581
Slight
Ford crash on the A404 in Hillingdon, 18 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701XH00973
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Hillingdon, 20 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010XR0307
Slight
Electric motorcycle crash on the A404 in Hillingdon, 10 June 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010579844
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A404 in Hillingdon, 16 February 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010236850
Slight
Car crash on the A404 in Hillingdon, 20 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401XR01213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201201TB00832 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.