C road crash in Hounslow TW5 on 23 December 2016 at 20:25 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in Hounslow at 20:25 on Friday 23 December 2016. A 48-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes E Class was 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
- 23 Dec 2016
- Friday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48475, longitude -0.37945, in the TW5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heston Central, Hounslow, TW5 0JA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010008624
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 1996.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Hounslow, 7 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TD00235
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Hounslow, 18 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200101TX00294
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Hounslow, 13 March 2016
At the same spotRef 201601TX20183
Slight
Scania crash on a C road in Hounslow, 4 June 2015
10 m awayRef 201501TX20405
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Hounslow, 23 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199701TD00573
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on a C road in Hounslow, 27 October 2011
10 m awayRef 201101TX20678
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016010008624 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 2016.