A40 crash in Ealing on 3 August 2012 at 06:04 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series, a Honda HR-V and an MG ZT were involved in a crash on the A40 in Ealing at 06:04 on Friday 3 August 2012. The 38-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series and the 29-year-old male driver of the Honda HR-V were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2012
- Friday, 06:04
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 5 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51371, longitude -0.249, in the W3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wormholt, Hammersmith and Fulham, W12 0NH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ealing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201XD80630
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Ealing, 30 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198601FS00283
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 1 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010FS0087
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Ealing, 6 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501XD00518
Slight
Yamaha FZ6 crash on the A40 in Ealing, 1 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201001XD80305
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A40 in Ealing, 23 August 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010055622
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Ealing, 30 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401XD00588
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda HR-V
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: MG ZT
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda HR-V)
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 201201XD80630 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.