A30 crash in Hounslow on 14 May 2014 at 13:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf, a Toyota Corolla and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A30 in Hounslow at 13:20 on Wednesday 14 May 2014. The 56-year-old female driver of the Toyota Corolla and the 48-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class 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
- 14 May 2014
- Wednesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47171, longitude -0.40612, 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
- 201401TX20452
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 312
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 8 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198701TD00304
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 23 July 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010588323
Slight
Van crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 13 January 2014
14 m awayRef 201401TX20051
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 28 February 2008
14 m awayRef 200801TX20122
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 16 July 2003
14 m awayRef 200301TE00318
Slight
Scania crash on the A30 in Hounslow, 31 October 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010067403
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mercedes C Class)
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 201401TX20452 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 2014.