Unclassified road crash in Ealing W3 on 20 May 2012 at 00:05 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Volkswagen Bora were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ealing at 00:05 on Sunday 20 May 2012. The 29-year-old female driver of the Mercedes E Class and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes E Class were 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
- 20 May 2012
- Sunday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Volkswagen Bora
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52663, longitude -0.2831, in the W3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Acton, Ealing, NW10 7PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ealing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201XD80392
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1997.
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A40 in Ealing, 29 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701XD00932
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A40 in Ealing, 2 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200601XD80513
Slight
Honda MSX125 crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 10 December 2014
10 m awayRef 201401XD81147
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A40 in Ealing, 26 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199401XD00625
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Ealing, 31 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200401XS00977
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Ealing, 16 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200001XS01317
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,222 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- 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 201201XD80392 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 2012.