A30 crash in Hounslow on 17 December 2012 at 17:15 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 and a Mercedes S Class were involved in a crash on the A30 in Hounslow at 17:15 on Monday 17 December 2012. The 38-year-old female driver of the Mazda 323 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 323 and Mercedes S Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47198, longitude -0.40582, in the TW4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranford, Hounslow, TW5 9UT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TX20777
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 312
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1997.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 21 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701TD00833
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 4 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501TD00413
Serious
Toyota Carina crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 20 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199501TD00578
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 18 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601TD00342
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 16 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501TX20035
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 9 September 2013
At the same spotRef 201301TX20509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes S Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 4,966 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
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 201201TX20777 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.