C road crash in Hounslow TW5 on 23 January 2015 at 07:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on a C road in Hounslow at 07:30 on Friday 23 January 2015. The 24-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2015
- Friday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48481, longitude -0.38004, in the TW5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heston East, Hounslow, TW5 0HG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501TX20051
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 January 2014.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Hounslow, 2 January 2014
At the same spotRef 201401TX20065
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Hounslow, 13 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010TD0579
Slight
Aprilia crash on a C road in Hounslow, 28 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200201TX01289
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hounslow, 20 September 1984
10 m awayRef 198401TD00535
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on a C road in Hounslow, 17 December 2019
17 m awayRef 2019010225524
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Hounslow, 23 August 1997
30 m awayRef 199701TD00573
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201501TX20051 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 2015.