A4 crash in Hounslow on 14 October 2016 at 22:33 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A4 in Hounslow at 22:33 on Friday 14 October 2016. The 55-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2016
- Friday, 22:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48827, longitude -0.27374, in the W4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiswick Gunnersbury, Hounslow, W4 4EJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010025013
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2014.
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 8 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401TX20786
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 31 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TX00517
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 8 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200801TX20636
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 3 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901TX01241
Slight
Nissan Leaf crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 3 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010568286
Slight
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the A4 in Hounslow, 11 September 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010465452
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- 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 2016010025013 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.