Unclassified road crash in Ealing UB6 on 24 December 2016 at 17:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ealing at 17:30 on Saturday 24 December 2016. The 54-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53256, longitude -0.35151, in the UB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central Greenford, Ealing, UB6 8SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ealing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010008703
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 22 October 1999.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 22 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901XS00722
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 25 April 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010571405
Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 17 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199201XS00255
Serious
Vauxhall Senator crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 15 October 1990
10 m awayRef 199001XS00622
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 20 October 2000
14 m awayRef 200001XS01101
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 5 October 1984
22 m awayRef 198401XS00621
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016010008703 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 2016.