A3006 crash in Hounslow on 16 August 2012 at 01:00 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van and a car were involved in a crash on the A3006 in Hounslow at 01:00 on Thursday 16 August 2012. The 23-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Vito van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2012
- Thursday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Vito and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46802, longitude -0.36651, in the TW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hounslow Central, Hounslow, TW3 1ES area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TX20477
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3006
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3005
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 October 2007.
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 26 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200701TX67322
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 4 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200501TE00379
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 22 March 2013
10 m awayRef 201301TX20155
Slight
Dennis crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 6 March 2010
14 m awayRef 201001TX20137
Slight
Volvo crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 17 January 2007
14 m awayRef 200701TX20019
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A3006 in Hounslow, 26 December 2001
14 m awayRef 200101TX01360
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
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 201201TX20477 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 2012.