Serious A40 crash in Ealing on 21 May 2017 at 08:16 involving a Toyota Yaris
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 May 2017
- Sunday, 08:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53001, longitude -0.29508, in the W5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hanger Hill, Ealing, W5 1UA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010038677
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 406
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Ealing, 26 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201401XD80715
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Ealing, 17 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010XD0575
Slight
Van crash on the A40 in Ealing, 25 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198701XD00253
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A40 in Ealing, 9 May 2023
5 m awayRef 2023010442187
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A406 in Ealing, 30 September 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010601351
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A40 in Ealing, 29 January 2014
10 m awayRef 201401XD80112
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2017010038677 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 2017.