A316 crash in Hounslow on 17 January 2017 at 09:15 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A Piaggio Vespa motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A316 in Hounslow at 09:15 on Tuesday 17 January 2017. The 38-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Vespa and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48234, longitude -0.25783, in the W4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiswick Homefields, Hounslow, W4 2SQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010012419
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 316
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 316
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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 slight injury crash on 26 May 2004.
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A316 in Hounslow, 26 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TE00404
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A316 in Hounslow, 28 February 2022
At the same spotRef 2022010362752
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A316 in Hounslow, 31 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010080963
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A316 in Hounslow, 14 February 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010427461
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A316 in Hounslow, 2 March 1989
14 m awayRef 198901TC00118
Slight
Car crash on the A316 in Hounslow, 22 May 1990
14 m awayRef 199001TC00308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Vespa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017010012419 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 2017.