Serious A4020 crash in Ealing on 21 July 2017 at 16:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A4020 in Ealing at 16:50 on Friday 21 July 2017. A 49-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jul 2017
- Friday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50643, longitude -0.2634, in the W3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Acton, Ealing, W3 9DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ealing
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010049761
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4020
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2010.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 19 December 2010
At the same spotRef 201001XD80965
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 19 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701XD00270
Slight
DAF Trucks FTG 85CF crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 4 April 2007
10 m awayRef 200701XD80274
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 6 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199701XD00690
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 29 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199601XD00222
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4020 in Ealing, 27 June 2019
10 m awayRef 2019010189933
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010049761 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.