Unclassified road crash in Hillingdon UB3 on 29 December 2017 at 11:15 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon at 11:15 on Friday 29 December 2017. A 17-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2017
- Friday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Alexander Dennis and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50473, longitude -0.42283, in the UB3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hayes Town, Hillingdon, UB3 1FG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010080676
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 serious injury crash on 18 April 1996.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 18 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199601XH00370
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 28 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501XH30121
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 17 November 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010479101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 2 March 1987
10 m awayRef 198701XY00086
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 30 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501XY00252
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 13 April 1992
14 m awayRef 199201XY00147
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010080676 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 2017.