A4020 crash in Hillingdon on 4 February 2018 at 13:25 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A4020 in Hillingdon at 13:25 on Sunday 4 February 2018. The 48-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 2018
- Sunday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52278, longitude -0.42163, in the UB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belmore, Hillingdon, UB4 0AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hillingdon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010087958
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4020
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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 15 October 2005.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A4020 in Hillingdon, 15 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501XH30581
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A4020 in Hillingdon, 24 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401XH00090
Slight
Car crash on the A4020 in Hillingdon, 12 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010XR1056
Serious
Car crash on the A4020 in Hillingdon, 10 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901XY00342
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A4020 in Hillingdon, 26 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301XH00971
Slight
Car crash on the A4020 in Hillingdon, 16 January 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010489502
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018010087958 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 2018.