A312 crash in Hounslow on 26 September 2017 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mercedes B Class were involved in a crash on the A312 in Hounslow at 18:30 on Tuesday 26 September 2017. The 47-year-old male driver of the Mercedes B Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2017
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mercedes B Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48766, longitude -0.41132, in the TW5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranford, Hounslow, TW5 9RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hounslow
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010061066
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- 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
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2025.
Slight
Cupra Formentor crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 4 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010601618
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 21 August 2025
21 m awayRef 2025010594138
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 5 November 1990
22 m awayRef 199001TD00819
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 28 June 2012
28 m awayRef 201201TX20352
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 9 June 1998
28 m awayRef 199801TD00513
Serious
Car crash on the A312 in Hounslow, 25 March 2008
30 m awayRef 200801TX20138
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes B Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes B Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017010061066 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.